cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (08/16/89)
In article <20020@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes: >Interesting... I posted a message a while back about getting >postscript output from the Amiga to a Sun postscript printer. I am >currently using ProWrite/ProScript still since the other options >suggested don't work. For example, Ifftops generates garbage on the >postscript printer. I'm just sending the file to the Sun & then: >lpr 'file.ps'. What's wrong? I use a program that was written by William Mason and Sam Paolucci named IFF2PS. It is version 2.0. It allows you to generate encapsulated postscript as well as just a straight postscript file. After adjusting it to get full size printouts of various images I left those options in my configuration file and made them the defaults. The output file is on an NFS mounted file system that my workstation shares, so I just lpr the file to the printer down the hall and poof a hard copy of an IFF image. It's available from Tom's BBS (415) 32-RADIO, and from kilowatt as iff2ps20.1 --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"
garvin@ccvr1.uucp (Michael A. Garvin) (08/16/89)
In article <121633@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >In article <20020@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes: >> [stuff about PostScript, Suns, and Ifftops making garbage deleted] >>lpr 'file.ps'. What's wrong? > >I use a program that was written by William Mason and Sam Paolucci named >IFF2PS. It is version 2.0. It allows you to generate encapsulated postscript >as well as just a straight postscript file. After adjusting it to get full >size printouts of various images I left those options in my configuration >file and made them the defaults. The output file is on an NFS mounted file >system that my workstation shares, so I just lpr the file to the printer >down the hall and poof a hard copy of an IFF image. > >It's available from Tom's BBS (415) 32-RADIO, and from kilowatt as iff2ps20.1 > > >--Chuck McManis I've been using a program called DPlaz that came over the net a while ago. It's still a sub-1.0 release, but it does work fairly nicely. It is based (as I recall) on the old PostScript generating program 'claz' (which was a piece of junk, sorry) but has been re-written and is much improved. The real win for it is that it uses "iff.library" to display boxes on a page-sized box for each (of multiple) pictures. You can move them on the page, re-size them, rotate them, and even overlap images! All this in a nice user-interface where you can see your work and not guess about page sizes, coordinates, etc. It's definately worth a look. I upload (soon to be FTP) the PostScript output to a VAX, then lpr the file, where it then goes through a GatorBox to a LaserWriter. Michael Garvin garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu NCSU Computing Center, Raleigh, NC