brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) (12/12/87)
The laser-prep that goes with LW 5.0 seems to very similar to the
laser-prep that goes with LW 4.0. Henceforth, I'll call the 4.0 prep
laser-prep-65.pro, or laser prep version 65. I'll call the 5.0 prep
laser-prep-66.pro. I'll get right to the question:
Will the version 66 prep work for all output from the 4.0 laserwriter
driver? (i.e., is laser-prep-66.pro a superset or improved version of 4.0?)
Now the motivation: as you all may know, we have several LaserWriters
connected to our UNIX machines, and we have software that lets us get Mac
output from those printers. Our software takes a look at the Mac-generated
PostScript file and prepends the necessary header. In particular, it takes a
look at the first line of the Mac PostScript. Historically, this has been
something like:
md begin original driver
%!PS-Adobe-1.0 a subsequent driver
%!PS-Adobe-1.2 etc.
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 LaserWriter 4.0
The problem is that the 5.0 driver also uses %!PS-Adobe-2.0 at the
beginning of its files.
I'm hoping that I can just throw out the version 65 prep and have its
function taken over by the version 66 prep. (i.e., Have one prep for both
the version 4.0 and 5.0 LW drivers.)
I did a test print of a couple of 1-page MacWrite documents. One, I
generated with LW 4.0 and printed with laser-prep-66 and the other I generated
with LW 5.0 and printed with laser-prep-65.pro. Both came out just fine.
They weren't very complicated files, though.
Anybody know the answers?
Brian H. Powell
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