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Article #8079Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer?
From: Steve Dorner
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1989 15:49
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1989 15:49
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In article <sY31Dcy00hl=40YdRP@andrew.cmu.edu> jhm+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jim Morris) writes:
>It is possilbe to put a LaserPrep file in front of a Mac-generated PS file in
>order to print it on a non-LaserWriter like a DEC LN03R or PagePrinter 40. Why
>can't the same be done for the NeXT printer?
If you are using the latest version of the Mac LW driver (the one that came
with system 6.0.2), prepend LaserPrep (or use cmd-K), and then run this
sed script on it:
---- cut here ----
1i\
%!\
gsave
402,421d
82,83d
20,24c\
/ok true def\
/LW false def\
/waittimeout 300 def\
/fc {} def
8,18d
$a\
grestore
---- cut here ----
The script strips out some LW-specific stuff (ok, LW, waittimeout, fc) and
removes the 68000 object code that Apple downloads and executes in their
printers. I've had good luck with it.
Apple really does produce strange PostScript. Not surprising, as it's a
call-for-call translation of Quickdraw.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: dorner@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc!garcon!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer? Message-ID: <502@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Mar 89 15:49:35 GMT References: <509@gonzo.UUCP> <17633@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <253@ccsrd14.UUCP> <sY31Dcy00hl=40YdRP@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 35