got@cs280a (Gordon Tillman PFGotM) (01/26/91)
Hello again, I posted an article a couple weeks back requesting info on printing Mac postscript files on the NeXt. Dan Davidson was kind enough to send me a header file that he had used successfully on Dec machines. I tried to use it the the NeXT, but can't quite seem to make it work. I don't get any errors, but I don't get any output either. If I under- stand correctly, these header files (probably not the correct term) define a bunch of functions that are called by the Mac postscript. I tried just imbedding the entire header file near the beginning of a Mac postscript file and got the results indicated above. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, Gordon Tillman got@shell.com Processing Facilities and Maintenance Shell Oil Co. -- Gordon Tillman got@shell.com Processing Facilities and Maintenance Shell Oil Co.
tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui) (01/27/91)
In article <1991Jan26.043713.27194@shell.shell.com> got@cs280a (Gordon Tillman PFGotM) writes: >I posted an article a couple weeks back requesting info on printing Mac >postscript files on the NeXt. Dan Davidson was kind enough to send me >a header file that he had used successfully on Dec machines. > >I tried to use it the the NeXT, but can't quite seem to make it work. I've had success transferring postscript files from the Mac to the NeXT and printing them. When generating the postscript files from the Mac, at the print dialog box, issue Command-K, not Command-F. Command-K tells the driver to write the laserprep header that's needed to process Mac-specific print files. Edit the resultant postscript# file so the first line contains %!PS-Adobe-2.0. The default laserprep header doesn't have this so the NeXT will think you're printing a normal file without it, giving you streams and streams of postscript source code. Alternatively, you can hack the laserprep LROM and include it. (It's in LaserPrep, resource POST, ID -8192, string #1. After modifying, it should look like: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Title: "Laser Prep -- The Apple PostScript Dictionary (md)" %%Creator: Apple Software Engineering %%CreationDate: Thursday, March 19, 1987 ) I've used the above to print stuff from MS WORD 4.00, even the tables feature...the application from hell...if it works, anything should :-) BTW, the NeXT doesn't do bitmap smoothing although you can get some info on that type of support on sumex-aim.stanford.edu... Ken ______________________________________________________________________________ tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, tempest@walleye.ecst.csuchico.edu,|Kenneth K.F. Lui| tempest@sutro.sfsu.edu, tempest@wet.UUCP |________________|