akc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Cox) (01/17/89)
I finally figure out how to capture files at postscript (with a little help from friends). First you have to have your printer selected as the Laserwriter even though you don't have one. Then when get to the print window, just *before* you click on the ok button hold down apple-f (command-f), then click ok. It will then create the postscript file in the directory DRIVERS of SYSTEM ( at least thats where it is on GS/OS). I then upload my (huge) postscript text file to the real computers and lpc it to our laserwriters. Although, I did have to make one change to the file. The printer was not recognizing it as postscript so I added %! as the first line and everything came out perfect. Nice crisp graphic printouts. Looks much nicer than my old NEC. (-: Bruce _____________________________________________________________________________ Bruce Cox UUCP: akc@mace.cc.purdue.edu BITNET: clone@purccvm.bitnet Purdue University "Of All The Things I've Lost, It's My Mind I Miss The Most" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
pk33+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Peter C. Kornelisse") (03/02/89)
I'm using MS-Word on the Macintosh and I output my text to a PostScript-file. After transfering such a PostScript-file to Unix I used uuencode before sending this file to the Netherlands for printing to an Apple LaserWriter connected to a SUN-network. The result was a blinking light of the LaserWriter (six times), but no output of printed text and pictures. Can anyone tell me what to do, to get my text printed ? Bye, Peter Kornelisse.
kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) (03/05/89)
In article <sY3=zey00VQaM1VV9-@andrew.cmu.edu> pk33+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Peter C. Kornelisse") writes: > >I'm using MS-Word on the Macintosh and I output my text to a PostScript-file. >After transfering such a PostScript-file to Unix I used uuencode before sending >this file to the Netherlands for printing to an Apple LaserWriter connected to a >SUN-network. The result was a blinking light of the LaserWriter (six times), but >no output of printed text and pictures. > >Can anyone tell me what to do, to get my text printed ? > >Bye, > >Peter Kornelisse. Congratulations! You've been Microsofted! :-) another truly amzing and interresting fact is that you can't encode some postscript in microsoft and have ti do what you want it to do. I'm thinking of a specific example in the "blue book" that does a rotation of a name. . . THe laserwrite sitting on a Mac network has hoards of really wonderful dictionaries for it. What happens, since I'm pretty certain you don't have a mac on the laserwriter network, is that you don't have these dictionaries loaded! I ran into this problem when I tried to get Postscript stucc to the NeXT machine. I managed to get images and stuff over pretty easily, but not having the dicts makes it sorta hard. Short of writing a little program to pretend a mac is a laserwriter and grab the code that gets downloaded to an laserwrite (so that you can later download it to the real laserwriter), I don't have an answer. Complain to microsoft (and Apple, for that matter). Sean kamath. -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: kamath@reed.BITNET ARPA: kamath%reed.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)
nuwilken@ndsuvax.UUCP (Scott Wilken) (09/07/89)
I would like to thank person (the name escapes me) who posted the info on how to generate a postscript file under system disk 5.0 I was wondering how someone would do it under 3.0 (if it is even possible). I was also wondering if there were any gs programs that would READ postscript. I have many files I have created on Mac's at school that are saved as postscript that would be nice to use on the gs. Thanks Scott +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Internet: nuwilken@Plains.NoDak.EDU AppleLink PE: Wilken ! ! UUCP: uunet!ndsuvax!nuwilken GEnie Mail: S.WILKEN1 ! ! Bitnet: NUWILKEN@NDSUVAX CompuServe: 75130,1571 ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
j_p@pro-lep.cts.com (Jason Perez) (10/03/89)
Is there any program in the GS world that will output Postcript, that is support Poscript fonts and/or graphics?? _____ UUCP: crash!pro-lep!$logname ARPA: crash!pro-lep!$logname@nosc.mil INET: $logname@pro-lep.cts.com
j_p@pro-lep.cts.com (Jason Perez) (10/06/89)
Thanks for the replies about Postscript, but I have another question. Will AWGS let you use Postscript Fonts? And will it let you 'print' a Postscript file it generated to a file? I have access to Macs where I work which are hooked up to Laserwriter. I want to get a file from my GS and use the MAC to send a Postscript file( we have a program to do this) to the Laserwriter. Actually all I want to do is generate a file on my GS and print it on the Laserwriter at work, and Postscript seems the only way to do this, with preservation of fonts, and everything else a word processor generates (I don't want to re-edit anything on the MAC). _____ UUCP: crash!pro-lep!j_p ARPA: crash!pro-lep!j_p@nosc.mil INET: j_p@pro-lep.cts.com
j_p@pro-lep.cts.com (Jason Perez) (10/07/89)
Thanks for all the replies I've received. This is to Subash Shankar (I don't have full net access yet). The MAC program that will send a PS file to the Laserwriter is called SendPS and it is public domain. _____ UUCP: crash!pro-lep!j_p ARPA: crash!pro-lep!j_p@nosc.mil INET: j_p@pro-lep.cts.com
j_p@pro-lep.cts.com (Jason Perez) (10/10/89)
Here's a summary of the replies I've received. Yes, the GS will do Postscript. Copy the later Lserwriter driver from the System Tools Disk (it's about 81 blocks) to your xx/system/drivers directory. Then when you want to print a file, just do as usual, but hold down Apple-F when you press the OK button, a POSTSCRIPT file will be generated in your xx/system/drivers director called Postscript.GS00. Then I ported this over to a MAC using the Apple File Exchange program. Then using a PD program called Send PS on the MAC, the file is download to a Laserwriter. The downside to this process is that I was only able to print fonts that the Laserwriter has built in, but that's OK. _____ UUCP: crash!pro-lep!j_p ARPA: crash!pro-lep!j_p@nosc.mil INET: j_p@pro-lep.cts.com
philip@pro-generic.cts.com (Philip McDunnough) (10/11/89)
Network Comment: to #6019 by j_p@pro-lep.cts.com Could you let us know a way of saving a Postscript file to disk with a GS? On the Mac there are these command-F/K tricks.But then you have the header problems if you are trying to print to a LW hooked to a Unix computer. Philip McDunnough -> philip@utstat.toronto.edu
j_p@pro-lep.cts.com (Jason Perez) (10/14/89)
Comment to message from: philip@pro-generic.cts.com (Philip McDunnough)
To save a Postscript file to disk on a GS is simple. Simply copy the
newest Laserwriter driver(about 81 blocks) to your xx/system/drivers
directory. Then choose this printer driver from the Control Panel. Next run
any GS program. Load document. Select Print. Then hold down Apple-F and
then press the OK button on the dialog box. A Postscript file will then be
generated in you xx/system/drivers directory called Postscript.GS00.
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INET: j_p@pro-lep.cts.comdlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (10/14/89)
In article <8910120739.AA17455@trout.nosc.mil> philip@pro-generic.cts.com (Philip McDunnough) writes: >Network Comment: to #6019 by j_p@pro-lep.cts.com >Could you let us know a way of saving a Postscript file to disk with a GS? >On the Mac there are these command-F/K tricks.But then you have the header >problems if you are trying to print to a LW hooked to a Unix computer. > >Philip McDunnough -> philip@utstat.toronto.edu I believe Apple-F does it on the GS (it puts the file in *:System:Drivers). There aren't "header problems" with GS postscript files--you can dump them straight to a LaserWriter that's just been powered on. -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
gt0t+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson) (10/26/89)
I've been doing a lot of programming in postscript (amazing
language) recently, and I was wondering if there's any way to send a
raw postscript file from the GS. Through AppleTalk, of course. I
know that there is such a thing on the Mac called "Send PostScript" or
something like that. Is there anything like this for the GS? I could
REALLY use one right now (hint to all you programmers...).
-Greg T.
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In article <sZFYUTe00WB6Q=p1Jh@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: >I've been doing a lot of programming in postscript (amazing >language) recently, and I was wondering if there's any way to send a >raw postscript file from the GS. Through AppleTalk, of course. I >know that there is such a thing on the Mac called "Send PostScript" or >something like that. Is there anything like this for the GS? I could >REALLY use one right now (hint to all you programmers...). I have a little option in a not-yet-released Davex command ("net") that does what you want: all it does it make a PMSetPrinter call to clear the "ImageWriter emulator" bit that tells RPM (Remote Print Manager) to send, at the beginning of each print job, the command to activate the IWEM. Do you have documentation for the AppleTalk commands? The book you want is available from APDA, & it's called "AppleShare Programmer's Guide to the Apple IIgs" (even though it includes ProDOS 8 information too). -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
glenn@SLOTH.NCSL.NIST.GOV (G.O.D.s Originator) (12/27/89)
Does anyone know of a graphics routine for the IIGS that will display PostScript files??? Thanx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | K. Robert Glenn, Computer Scientist | glenn@osi3.ncsl.nist.gov | | NIST | | | Bldg. 225/ B215 | "Developing OSI protocols | | Gaithersburg, MD 20899 | bit by bit." | -------------------------------------------------------------------------