auvhess@auvc6.tamu.edu (David K. Hess) (02/28/91)
I'm working with somebody who has a NeXT hooked to another machine which is supporting a Laserwiter. We can send straight text files easily since the other machine preps the Laserwriter which then takes the passed file from the NeXT and prints it as text. However this poses a problem when you want to print a PostScript file from the NeXT. The PostScript just gets printed as text since we cannot disable the prep stuff. Somebody on the net posted a while back the escape sequence that you can put at the top of a PostScript file to kick the Laserwriter back in to the interpreter mode. Does anybody still have that and could they e-mail it to me? My intention is to develop a printcap entry and filter that will make the Laserwriter look like two printers, one for text printing and one for Post- Script printing. The PostScript entry would automatically put the escape sequence at the top of the file before shipping it out. If there is interest I will post the results of this to the net. Thanks. Dave Hess Graduate Student Texas A&M University auvhess@auvsun1.tamu.edu