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Article #1171(wanted) software to make PostScript from plain text files
From: paul
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 03:21
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 03:21
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I have an Apple LaserWriter connected to a VAX. I want to be able to send
plain text files to the printer; the printer wants PostScript. I was hoping
that there would be some sequence of PostScript commands I could prepend to
the file and have everything come out nice and paginated---this seems not to
be true. I was hoping that I could send the printer temporarily into Diablo
mode (can't leave it that way all the time because sometimes I **DO** have to
print PostScript)---this, also, seems not to be possible.
So, what do I have to do to my text to make the LaserWriter understand it?
Eventually I have to write a VMS Print Symbiont to do the work, but any code
that does the transformations (even extremely simplistic ones) will be a
great help. Any general algorithym to do the work will be a great help.
Heck, any advice at all will be a great help.
Send mail, I'll summarize. Thanks...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!vixie!paul From: paul@vixie.UUCP Newsgroups: net.text,net.micro.mac Subject: (wanted) software to make PostScript from plain text files Message-ID: <181@vixie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 22:21:07 EST Article-I.D.: vixie.181 Posted: Tue Oct 28 22:21:07 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Oct-86 22:33:52 EST Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) Distribution: world Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Mateo, CA Lines: 20