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Postscript for Agfa Film Recorder

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From: GLENN HOLM
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 00:54
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i tried asking in comp.graphics, but thought i'd try here..
i want to print images done on a NeXT with Illustrator, Create, 
etc. on an Agfa Color Pro slide maker.  Only problem is the film
recorder is tied to a Mac and runs the Agfa Conductor software.
It accepts PICT or TIFF files (24-bit, no compression), but the 
TIFFs i make on the NeXT all come out jagged.  Michael Johnson
suggested i make really big images and scale them down, but 
there's a limit to what i can fit onto a 1.4 Meg floppy, and they
take a long time to transfer over (neither machine is networked).

what i'd LIKE to do is save in EPS  or PS format and get the 
recorder to print them. smaller files, smoother lines.  but the
Agfa people won't even talk on the phone (Boo! to their customer
service).  

question- is there any other software (for Macintosh) that will
drive the recorder and accept PostScript?  (or a way to convert
into its native SCODL language and feed that directly into the
box?) 

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|Glenn Holm                         Internet:karuzis@wccf.mit.edu|
|M.I.T Dept. of Brain + Cog. Sci.   This VAX doesn't do NeXTMail |
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