d88pt@efd.lth.se (Peter Tomaszewski) (01/06/91)
I have a pc-board design program which saves files in the same format as AutoCad. Since I don't own a laser writer I want to send those files to a Sun station and use the laser writer connected to it. Is there a program for Sun that takes a AutoCad file and prints it on a laser? d88pt@efd.lth.se
nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) (01/09/91)
d88pt@efd.lth.se (Peter Tomaszewski) writes: >I have a pc-board design program which saves files in the same format as >AutoCad. Since I don't own a laser writer I want to send those files to a >Sun station and use the laser writer connected to it. Is there a program >for Sun that takes a AutoCad file and prints it on a laser? You can get AutoCAD for SUN machines, which would solve the problem. If you have an AutoCAD around on a PC, you can generate a Postscript output file. Select "reconfigure" from the main menu, and reconfigure the "plotter" as a Postscript printer. Then plot your drawing, and select plot output to a file. This yields a Postscript file (named <drawing name>.PLT), which you can then ship to a Postscript printer. You may need to append an ASCII EOT (0x04) to the file if your spooler doesn't do this, to tell the printer that transmission has ended. John Nagle