kerry@teb.larc.nasa.gov (Kerry Gough) (05/16/89)
Greetings, all... I thought I had already submitted this problem, but I have yet to see it posted. If it has been posted already, please disregard. We are using TOPS/Sun and TOPS/Mac to transfer files between our Sun server (3/160 running 3.5) and our Mac II. The software itself runs fine, but it brings up other problems. Namely, the files we are sending from the Mac are PostScript files created with Adobe Illustrator '88, and we need some way to print them. I know about TOPS/Spool, but that seems to be designed around a printer (or printers) connected directly to the network. Since NASA basically has one large network, I really don't want to put my printers out on the net where just anybody can get to them. The TOPS tech staff tells me that there is currently no way to print from the Mac directly to a printer on the Sun, but that there will be in a future release scheduled to hit the market in about six months (which means "in a year if we're lucky"). I realize that a daemon program can be written to pick up any new files in a given directory and print them, but I know virtually nothing about writing daemon processes, and have little or no free time to learn. Has anybody out there written such a program? If so, is there a copy somewhere that I can get to and use? Also, there is another problem: when files are printed from the Illustrator software, a "printer setup" menu pops up which allows the user to specify several things about the page setup, such as orientation (i.e., portrait or landscape), scaling, etc. Just transferring the file without going through the print command in the Illustrator means that all this info is never added to the PostScript file, and often means the files will not print out. As far as I can tell, there is no way to print from this menu to a file. Does anyone have any brilliant ideas about some way around this problem? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kerry Kerry M. Gough NASA-Langley Research Center Mail Stop 149 Hampton VA 23665 (804)864-2496 email: kerry@teb.larc.nasa.gov
steve%maths.warwick.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Steve Rumsby) (05/19/89)
> The TOPS tech > staff tells me that there is currently no way to print from the Mac > directly to a printer on the Sun, but that there will be in a future > release scheduled to hit the market in about six months (which means "in a > year if we're lucky") I was told a couple of days ago by a TOPS person that the latest verion of TOPS, available NOW, will allow printing from Mac to Sun. Of course the glossy he gave me didn't mention this feature, but he assured me it was true... Steve. UUCP: ...!ukc!warwick!steve Internet: steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk JANET: steve@uk.ac.warwick.maths PHONE: +44 203 523523 x2657