keithl@loop.uucp (Keith Lofstrom;;;628-3645) (09/20/90)
I need a header to prepend to the "postscript" file output of Microsoft Word 5.0 . The POSTSCRP.INI file supplied with Word is intended to be sent to a Postscript laser printer through the serial port when Word starts up. It doesn't appear to work as a header. Before I pull down the Red Book and start some serious hacking, has anyone already built a Word 5.0 header file that works? Kind netters provided such a header for 4.0 a year or two back. Thanks, -- Keith Lofstrom keithl@loop.uucp ...!sun!nosun!loop!keithl (503)628-3645 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (09/22/90)
I have found the hard way that there are some problems with the Word 5.0 PostScript header file. The old problems of flushfile and stuff are gone (version 4.0) but a new one has arrived that causes CAP users grief and probably other (Novell) users as well if their spooler software handles procsets. Microsoft begins a procset and never ends it. Any system that is looking for procsets swallows your whole document in the process. You can manually edit the header to make it a complete procset. Microsot MAY have a fix for this. I admit that I have not contacted them about this. How many people print Word 5 over CAP??. I probably should have called Microsoft. Have you ever tried to explain to a front line technical support person that your PC spools to Unix running CAP over Appletalk and ethernet and that it captures PostScript procsets and that the Postscrp.ini file contains an incomplete procset? What's a procset? <-- probable response! Sorry... the last two paragraphs are because I am feeling guilty for not calling to report it. tj .