ivan@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (ivan.p.polonsky) (12/06/89)
I need a copy of laserprep 5.2 to prepend to Mac-generated Postscript files that have been uploaded to a UNIX system. Alternatively, we could use information about getting Mac users to prepend laserprep before they upload to a UNIX system. Ivan Polonsky homxa!ivan
woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) (12/07/89)
In article <6365@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, ivan@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (ivan.p.polonsky) writes: > I need a copy of laserprep 5.2 to prepend to Mac-generated > Postscript files that have been uploaded to a UNIX system. > Alternatively, we could use information about getting Mac users > to prepend laserprep before they upload to a UNIX system. > > Ivan Polonsky > homxa!ivan I don't mess with the mac world, but it is my understanding that there is a combination of key strokes something like Apple O or F that will cause the Postscript printer output to be redirected to a file. It will include the preamble. The file should be just what would be sent to the printer, and thus if you have laserprep, it should be pre-appended. Perhaps some one on the net knows the exact key strokes and methods. Hope this helps. Cheers Woody
bochner@flare.harvard.edu (Harry Bochner) (12/12/89)
In article <17412@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes: I don't mess with the mac world, but it is my understanding that there is a combination of key strokes something like Apple O or F that will cause the Postscript printer output to be redirected to a file. It will include the preamble. The file should be just what would be sent to the printer, and thus if you have laserprep, it should be pre-appended. Perhaps some one on the net knows the exact key strokes and methods. Hope this helps. command-F causes the postscript that would normally be sent to the printer to be saved in a file, but this is on the assumption that LaserPrep has already been downloaded. command-K saves everything, including all the initialization. Unfortunately, this tends to need some doctoring before it's appropriate for a non-Mac environment, since LaserPrep assumes that it should retain control for the remaining print jobs, and this mostly likely isn't what you want for a Unix environment. In the file that we have for AppleDict version #68 (which I think comes from LaserPrep 5.2), we have 10 lines commented out, starting after %%BeginProcSet, plus one more, beginning '/ok{statusdict ...'. Harry Bochner bochner@endor.harvard.edu