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Re: Sun + Mac + Laserwriter

#840
From: David Boyes
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1987 22:12
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Stanley C. Ahalt writes:
>If I lw the ps file, the graphics print out just fine.  However, if I
>embed the file in the TeX source, and use the PrintChart command supplied
>by ArborText to print the file, nothing at all prints!  I have concluded
>that there is some incompatability between the environment set-up
>by ArborText's dvips and the LaserPrep file (version 65) supplied by Apple.

YES! The Apple LaserPrep mutilates the current environment so badly that
TeX can't get anything to work. As I understand it, LaserPrep is simply
a set of PS macros that establish an environment very similar to a Mac
screen and then the Mac just spews QuickDraw-type calls out to the
printer for evaluation. Icky. You might try looking at the file with
MicroEMACS or the like and removing all the environment setting cr*p
that Apple includes.
-- 
David Boyes                   ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Systems Division              BITNET: 556@OREGON1
University of Oregon Computing Center   UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP
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From: dboyes@uoregon%tektronix.tek.com (David Boyes)
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Subject: Re: Sun + Mac + Laserwriter
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 18:12:21 EDT
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