lawyer@ida.org (Steve Lawyer) (05/04/89)
Can anyone help me? I have a number of Mac users, who would prefer to use Microsoft Word (and MacPaint-MacDraw etc) to create pages of information, which is to become part of a Sun based system. We have discovered that <Cmd-F> during the Mac print operation will create a PostScript file (without "AppleDict md") and <Cmd-K> appears to create a PostScript file (starting with "AppleDict md"). After transfering either file to the Sun (via TOPS), inserting a "%!" where needed, neither file will print on a laserwriter attached to the Sun nor display under NeWS. Does anyone know what I need to change to get these documents to display/print on the Sun? thanks in advance! --------------------- Steve Lawyer InterNet lawyer@ida.org UUCP ..!csed-1!lawyer
NMKATZ@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Nicholas M. Katz) (05/09/89)
In article <931@csed-1.IDA.ORG>, lawyer@ida.org (Steve Lawyer) writes: > >Can anyone help me? > >I have a number of Mac users, who would prefer to use Microsoft Word (and >MacPaint-MacDraw etc) to create pages of information, which is to become >part of a Sun based system. > >We have discovered that <Cmd-F> during the Mac print operation will create a >PostScript file (without "AppleDict md") and <Cmd-K> appears to create a >PostScript file (starting with "AppleDict md"). After transfering either >file to the Sun (via TOPS), inserting a "%!" where needed, neither file >will print on a laserwriter attached to the Sun nor display under NeWS. > >Does anyone know what I need to change to get these documents to display/print >on the Sun? thanks in advance! > >--------------------- >Steve Lawyer >InterNet lawyer@ida.org >UUCP ..!csed-1!lawyer Try this, which works to print mac stuff via my NeXT. Good luck.======= Subject: Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer? From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Date: 6 Mar 89 15:49:35 GMT - <502@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In article <sY31Dcy00hl=40YdRP@andrew.cmu.edu> jhm+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jim Morris) writes: >It is possilbe to put a LaserPrep file in front of a Mac-generated PS file in >order to print it on a non-LaserWriter like a DEC LN03R or PagePrinter 40. Why >can't the same be done for the NeXT printer? If you are using the latest version of the Mac LW driver (the one that came with system 6.0.2), prepend LaserPrep (or use cmd-K), and then run this sed script on it: ---- cut here ---- 1i\ %!\ gsave 402,421d 82,83d 20,24c\ /ok true def\ /LW false def\ /waittimeout 300 def\ /fc {} def 8,18d $a\ grestore ---- cut here ---- The script strips out some LW-specific stuff (ok, LW, waittimeout, fc) and removes the 68000 object code that Apple downloads and executes in their printers. I've had good luck with it. Apple really does produce strange PostScript. Not surprising, as it's a call-for-call translation of Quickdraw. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765