[comp.lang.postscript] Printing Postscript on MAC

jrkdmd@dmdscs.com (04/07/91)

I have a Postscript Document, (output from DECwrite), and wish to print it on
an Apple Laserwriter attached to a Macintosh SE.  The connection between the
Vax(VMS) and the Mac is a serial line.  I can use kermit and Mac240 to get the
Postscript Document over to the MAC. but I can's seem to print it. It want's an
application to do the print function.  If I import it into Macwrite to print it
- it prints the PS program rather than executing it!,  Is there not some way to
just "drop" the file" on the printer????

-perplexed

jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) (04/08/91)

Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 6-Apr-91 Printing Postscript
on MAC jrkdmd@dmdscs.com (527)

> It want's an application to do the print function.  If I import it into
> Macwrite to print it - it prints the PS program rather than executing
> it!,  Is there not some way to just "drop" the file" on the printer????

> -perplexed

Dear Perplexed,

It sounds like what you need is "SendPS".  That's a handy Mac
application which dumps PostScript to your favorite printer as native
PostScript.  I got my copy via anonymous FTP from the
sumex-aim.stanford.edu archive.  It was somewhere under the /info-mac
directory.  If you don't have access to FTP, Adobe will send you a disk
with the program on it.  Call (415) 961-4111 and ask about the "Tools
Diskette for Macintosh".  There may be other non-Internet sources that
I'm unaware of.
Joe Jackson
Distributed Workstation Services
Carnegie Mellon University

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