steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) (06/14/91)
Under System 7.0 on the Macintosh I have created a Postscript file which I then uploaded to our DECstation and sent to our Laserwriter IINTX. Since the Laserwriter hasn't been initialized with a Macintosh, it dies on special macros in the Postscript file. I believe these macros are defined in the included file, AppleDict, and the Laserwriter doesn't have AppleDict installed in memory. Is there a way to include the AppleDict when creating the postscript file? Or is there a way to put it on the DECstation so that the DECstation can initialize the printer? -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Michael Steele steele@dg-rtp.dg.com or mikes@catt.ncsu.edu Data General Corporation -- Building the finest Workstations in Industry <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
kevina@apple.com (Kevin Andresen) (06/15/91)
In article <1991Jun13.172702.9085@dg-rtp.dg.com> steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) writes: > Under System 7.0 on the Macintosh I have created a Postscript file > which I then uploaded to our DECstation and sent to our Laserwriter IINTX. > > Since the Laserwriter hasn't been initialized with a Macintosh, it dies > on special macros in the Postscript file. I believe these macros are > defined in the included file, AppleDict, and the Laserwriter doesn't > have AppleDict installed in memory. Is there a way to include the > AppleDict when creating the postscript file? Or is there a way to put it > on the DECstation so that the DECstation can initialize the printer? If you captured the file using the new LaserWriter 7.0 driver, the LaserPrep initialization should be there; that is, AppleDict should be defined in the prologue of the PS file and nobody needs to "initialize" the printer first. What kind of errors are you getting? --Kevin Andresen [kevina@apple.com] "You took the wind right out of my sails/It must be luff/It must be luff"
macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) (06/16/91)
In an article steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) rambles: >Since the Laserwriter hasn't been initialized with a Macintosh, it dies >on special macros in the Postscript file. I believe these macros are >defined in the included file, AppleDict, and the Laserwriter doesn't >have AppleDict installed in memory. I'm not so sure this is the problem. I am under the impression that the system 7 laserwriter driver no longer leaves the laser prep information in the printer. In other words, it's sent with every print job. As a result, printing to just and printer shouldn't be a problem since it no longer has to have the Macintosh initialization. I print postscript files to a Postscript clone printer on our unix system at school. Before system 7, I used to have a lot of problems. Macps did a nice job, but the system 7 drivers seem to handle making generic postscript files a LOT better. (This has been my experience anyway). - Chris =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chris Silverberg INTERNET: macman@wpi.wpi.edu Worcester Polytechnic Institute Main Street USA 508-832-7725 (sysop) America Online: TfChris WMUG BBS 508-832-5844 (sysop)
elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) (06/16/91)
People who do this kind of printing regularly may want to keep their eyes open for StripFonts, a package I just posted to comp.sys.mac.archive and comp.binaries.mac; it can greatly speed up the uploading of Mac PostScript files by stripping out the fonts and ProcSets from them; a library of these is gradually built up on the UNIX side so that each font and ProcSet needs to be uploaded only once and then never again... If the postings seem to be taking too long, you can also get at StripFonts by anonymous ftp to my machine, veronica.cs.wisc.edu. Look in the directory src/stripfonts. -- Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu