thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark) (10/25/88)
I am anxious to purchase a desktop publishing program but cannot yet afford a laser printer. Where I work, there are many Mac's hooked to LaserWriter II's. Is there any path (comercial or public domain) to take the output of an Amiga publishing program, put into a Mac-readable file on a Mac-readable disk for printing on the LaserWriter?????? There just isn't enough room in my budget for a 020/881 board, frame buffer, 100 Meg hard disk, AND a laser printer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mark Thompson | | decvax!savax!thompson Designing high performance graphics | | (603)885-9229 silicon today for a better tomorrow. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) (10/26/88)
From article <796@savax.UUCP>, by thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark): > Is there any path (comercial > or public domain) to take the output of an Amiga publishing > program, put into a Mac-readable file on a Mac-readable disk > for printing on the LaserWriter?????? Professional Page, from Gold Disk, will send its Postscript output to a disk file. Postscript files are readable ASCII text, so you should be able to transmit the file through your modem to a Macintosh, then send it to the printer. Hmm. Maybe the Mac doesn't have a utility like "type" that allows you to send a file to the printer. --Fabbian Dufoe 350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South St. Petersburg, Florida 33705 813-823-2350 UUCP: ...codas!usfvax2!jc3b21!fgd3 ...uunet!pdn!jc3b21!fgd3
rmf%Janus.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%UNCAEDU.BITNET@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu (Russ Forster) (10/27/88)
One thing you can do, is use Expresspaint II to write the
image to a postscript file. Kermit that file to your
MAC and then print it off from there. We do it all the
time and it works great.
/Russ
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T3E 6K6phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone) (10/28/88)
The original posting in this thread asked about the feasibility of somehow getting Amiga files printed out on a LaserWriter. In article <5040@louie.udel.EDU> rmf%Janus.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%UNCAEDU.BITNET@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu (Russ Forster) writes: > > One thing you can do, is use Expresspaint II to write the > image to a postscript file. Kermit that file to your > MAC and then print it off from there. We do it all the > time and it works great. That certainly sounds possible, but only if one has a spare Macintosh lying around (that isn't being used as a doorstop). The original question echoed one of my pet fantasies. You see, there are dozens of places now where one can go and rent time on a Mac/LaserWriter for a pretty cheap price. I envy this public-access laser/hard-copy capability the Mac world has. Since it's probably unlikely that these places will start installing Amigas tied to laser printers, the only solution is to show up with a Macintosh- readable disk. I think it has been discussed before, but is it possible for the Amiga to produce a Mac-readable disk, ready to be cheaply lasered at the neighborhood copy store? Phil Stone (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov OR phil@eos.UUCP)
whitcomb@vivaldi.Berkeley.EDU (Gregg Whitcomb) (10/28/88)
> ... You see, there are dozens of places now where one > can go and rent time on a Mac/LaserWriter for a pretty cheap price. I envy > this public-access laser/hard-copy capability the Mac world has. > > Since it's probably unlikely that these places will start installing Amigas > tied to laser printers, the only solution is to show up with a Macintosh- > readable disk. I think it has been discussed before, but is it possible > for the Amiga to produce a Mac-readable disk, ready to be cheaply lasered > at the neighborhood copy store? > > Phil Stone (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov OR phil@eos.UUCP) They may not install Amigas, but they may do what some of the centers in this area do: install modems! It's no problem to dial up their machines and download the postscript files. They do charge a bit more for downloading however (about the same or less than the printing charge). -Gregg Whitcomb (whitcomb@ic.berkeley.edu)