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Article #11248Background Printing of PostScript files
From: Theodore Lee
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:04
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:04
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(second try, having received no responses to first query) 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!TIS.COM!tmplee From: tmplee@TIS.COM (Theodore Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Background Printing of PostScript files Message-ID: <9301041804.AA06844@TIS.COM> Date: 4 Jan 93 18:04:11 GMT Sender: daemon@Apple.COM Reply-To: tmplee@TIS.COM Organization: Trusted Information Systems Lines: 22