lmm@labsms.UUCP (06/19/86)
HELP!
Answer me this,
Is there any way to redirect output which
would normally go to the Apple laserwriter into a file?
I have a Macintosh at home, and a Laserwriter at work
(connected to a UNIX machine, not a Mac), and I would
like to work on stuff at home on my Mac, then send it
via modem to the Unix machine at work to print on the
Laserwriter.
Am I right in assuming that what is sent
between the Mac and the laserwriter is plain ascii
text (Postscript)? If not, I could do a binhex before
'modem'ing to the machine at work, then un-binhex when it
gets there.
I would assume that the way this would be done is
to have a 'dummy' laserwriter printer driver (when
choosing printer) which would behave just like the normal
laserwriter driver, except that the output would go to
a file instead of out the appletalk port. (how big would
the file be anyway?).
If the output *IS* postscript, then looking at the
file would be interesting also.
Thanks in advance, It may be that there is already a
way to do this which I have overlooked. I have only
started looking at the laserwriter documentation today.
And I havent even installed the laserwriter driver on
any of my system disks yet. I didn't see anything in
the documentation to help me with what I'm trying to do.
Please post or mail, There may be others who are
interested in this also.
Larry McWilliams
AT&T Technologies
Oklahoma City Works
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---------------------------------------------------------lmm@labsms.UUCP (06/19/86)
OOOOOPPPS, After looking around in the oldnotes on this machine, I notice that somebody else has asked the same very question! It looks like the answer to the problem is to go COMMAND-F while selecting print and that will put it to a file called 'postscript' rather than sending it out on appletalk. How intuitive!, I should have known. Is there anymore to it than that? - - just send the file called 'postscript' to the printer, and it should work, -OR- is there some kind of initialization that needs to be done first. Again, thanks in advance. - - sorry to ask a question which has been asked before. Larry McWilliams labsms!lmm