drk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R Kohr) (10/22/89)
I have PostScript documents that I'd like to be able to print out on an
Apple LaserWriter II which is attached to a network of Sun 3's, all
running Sun/OS 4.0.3. The documents will be generated by IBM PC
word-processing and graphics software (like Microsoft Word, WordPerfect,
and Gem Draw) and put into the print queue for the LaserWriter using
PC-NFS 2.0. Transcript 2.0 is the PostScript-generating software that is
used to print out "normal" (straight text) files on the printer.
There's an option in the PC-NFS "nfsconf" program to designate a remote
(Unix) printer as a PostScript printer, but this apparently doesn't just
send the documents directly to the printer: they get filtered through
Transcript beforehand, so what you get out is the text of the PostScript
program which you really want the printer to execute. Is there a standard
way to easily send a PostScript file directly to the printer, without
having TranScript filter it, so that what you get out is the original
(PostScript) document, rather than the text of the PostScript program? (I
know you can just "cat" the file to the printer device, but I still want
to be able to use "lpr" to do this, so that the document gets queued up
normally.) I could always just define another printer in the printcap
file which simply doesn't use TranScript do to its filtering, but I'm
looking for an easier way.
Thanks,
David R. Kohr M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory Group 45 ("Radars 'R' Us")
email: KOHR@LL.LL.MIT.EDU or DRK@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
phone: (617)981-0775 (work), (617)527-3908 (home)