shatara@univse.dec.com (10/08/88)
REF: Keith's comments on Laser printing to a file. > you can use the same trick that is used on the Macintosh to capture the > Postscript commands into a text file. By holding down CMD-F after clicking > OK in the '# of pages' dialog box, the Postscript commands will be > redirected to a file in the System Folder called GS.POSTSCRIPT. > > Keith Rollin I got this to work last night, but only after using V4.0 of the system. The application was TOP DRAW and the CMD-F hung up the system when I used it botting directly off the TOP DRAW disk, but worked fine when I booted the V4.0 system disk and then double clicked the application. The file generated was POSTSCRIPT.GS and it happend to be in the DRIVERS folder. That was the easy part! Printing is another story.... I uploaded and tried to print on our LPS40 print server which accepts POSTSCRIPT files. No luck.....UNDEFINED COMMAND in the file. In talking with the "MAC to VAX" folks here, they attach a 'LASERPREP' file to the beginning of the file in question. I tried this using a file called LPS40PREP68.PS which on reading appears to have been created MAC files as it is system version specific. No luck with this approach. Has anyone else been successful out there? Is there a simple answer or am I way off track. /Chris Shatara