🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6 Aug 1995 02:44:46 -0400, Bryan Wu (bwu@panix.com) wrote:
: In <3vt4ug$951@blackice.winternet.com> jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) writes:
: >   It's yet another example of how the Mac paradigm of a-document-is-
: >produced-by-an-application gets in the way when you want to do even the
: >simplest things.
: 
: Doesn't get in the way because you didn't know the "print" command 
: existed in the finder.

   So.  I create a Postscript file and write it to an MsDOS disk.  I stick
it in a Mac down at Kinko's, and select "print" from the finder menu.
What happens? Do I

1:  I get a box telling me that the file has an unknown application.

2:  I get a plain-text listing of the Postscript code.

3:  Get a proper Postscript printout.

    Case 3 is the correct answer.  The last time I tried this on a Mac,
(admittedly, it was a few years ago, just after System 7 came out), I
got case 1.


   On a unix box, the default behavior is case 3 if it is going to a
Postscript printer, and case 2, otherwise.  A bit of work with the
printer filters, though, and you can easily make the system produce
case 3 in every case.  (i.e., if the document is a postscript document,
and it is going to a non-postscript printer that gs can produce output
for, run the document through gs before sending it to the printer.)

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