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Background Printing of PostScript files

#11248
From: Theodore Lee
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:04
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I recently just acquired a IIvx rather than some flavor of 486/50,
partly on assurances that I could do everything I needed to on it,
easier and just as fast as on a PC.  I find that one of those
assurances may have been misleading.  After having tried what I think
are all the appropriate applications or DA's/extensisons, I can't seem
to find any way of getting downloaded postscript files to print *in
the background*, i.e., using the PrintManager.  Is there some magic
answer? (The LaserWriter Utility works just fine, but it sits in the
foreground with the watch cursor and a dialogue window up. DTPrinter,
EasyPrint treat the postscript file as text and print it that way;
they would presumably work if there were a very simple application that
just read the postscript file a byte at a time and shipped it off to
printer-land.  PS Printer doesn't seem to work with the file manager;
Adobe's PrintPS  doesn't even work, probably not system 7 compatible
...)

(I'm using 7.1, the printer is an Everex Laserscript LX, some kind of
pretty darn exact clone of an apple laserwriter.)

tmplee@tis.com
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