anna@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Anna Heimgartner) (10/06/89)
I have some files in a MacDraw file which need to be included in a LaTex document. They are mostly graphs and a couple of drawings. I was told that if I pushed <command-F> while holding down the print button in the Macdraw file that I would get a postscript file. The only problem is that I need some sort of a dictionary file which defines the variables. Right now, I can't print out this file on my postscript printer. The header and first lines of the postscript form are as follows: cmpx_pla_F.psTEXTMPS "4!O:C!O:H =%!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Title: complex plane-Layer#1 %%Creator: MacDraw II 1.1 %%CreationDate: Wednesday, October 44, 1989 %%Pages: (atend) %%PageBounding Box: 125 130 2425 3170 %%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 70 0 %%EndComments %%EndProlog %%BeginDocumentSetup md begin T T 0 0 3040 2300 -130 -125 3170 2425 100 300 300 1 F F F F T T F psu 0 mf If anyone has any leads on where I can look or call for information, I would really appreciate it. I called Claris already, and they said that this is a feature of the MacIntosh machine, and not of their product. Anna Heimgartner NASA-Ames Research Center anna@pluto.arc.nasa.gov anna@edison.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP
CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate) (10/10/89)
Try using <command-K> instead of <command-F>. This causes the text of the
LaserPrep file to be included in the PostScript file. From what I know of
PostScript, it looks like the LaserPrep code declares many procedures, etc.
which are used by the print driver when it generates PS code for your
document.
A friend of mine here has used this method to print Mac documents through a
Sun workstation on a non-Apple laser printer.... I haven't had the chance to
ask him if there's more to it than this. What I just described is what he
explained to me.
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