tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks) (02/23/90)
Many writers have been talking about printing Mac PostScript files on Unix, with or without modification to Dialogue boxes, macps, etc. I have written to many of these privately, and have found *not one* who can do this with Microsoft Word files. A call to Microsoft informed me 1) that my Unix must be bad, and 2) that Microsoft had arrogant people on the help line. I am sending files with and without headers, I have tried macps and all I get is a blinking Laserwriter with no output. PageMaker works fine, by the way. In case it matters, I am running an Apple Laserwriter NT on a Sun sparcstation network. -- Terry Monks Automata Design Inc (703) 472-9400
mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire) (02/26/90)
From article <461@adimail.UUCP>, by tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks): > Many writers have been talking about printing Mac PostScript files on Unix, with > or without modification to Dialogue boxes, macps, etc. I have written to many of these > privately, and have found *not one* who can do this with Microsoft Word files. A call . . . > and all I get is a blinking Laserwriter with no output. PageMaker works fine, by the way. I (and others in our department) send MicroSoft Word 4.0 postscript files without the headers to Unix machines all the time. We have set up the Unix machines to prepend a header file before sending to the printer. Currently this works on a SUN 3/280 server with a LaserWriter Plus, a vax (bsd4.3) with an HP LaserJet II (with postscript cartridge), and an Apollo with a LaserWriter II NT. I have never found a MAC application postscript file that did not work. Note that the LaserPrep file on the Unix machines requires some hacking to eliminate some inits and status checks in order to work. Just sending the the header generated on the Mac will not work. If you are using a "remote" prep file, be sure it is the latest version. Another suggestion is to run the Unix print driver in an interactive shell. This way you can look at any error messages the LaserWriter might be returning. Charlie McGuire Systems Programmer The University of Iowa: Dept. of Computer Science mcguire@math.uiowa.edu mcguire@cs.uiowa.edu The University of Iowa