[comp.sys.apple2] laserwriter

nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) (09/20/90)

Just a question

when you boot GS/OS with the laserwriter driver it does not show up on the
DC control pannel. When you change the name of the laserwriter driver to
something else, it shows up and you can go into Appleworks GS and print to
it. If you press open-apple F it prints to a file on the disk.
If you download the file to a unix system and try to print to a postscript
printer, nothing works.  Only problem is, is there a way to print
encapuslated postscript on a regular postscript printer?  Is ther a unix
utility which will change the file?
Or is there a program on for a mac in which you can load in AppleworksGS
files and print it on a laserwriter?
thanks
.

shatara@islnds.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) (09/21/90)

In article <NAGENDRA.90Sep20094351@bucsf.bu.edu>, nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes...
>Just a question
> 
>it. If you press open-apple F it prints to a file on the disk.
>If you download the file to a unix system and try to print to a postscript
>printer, nothing works.  Only problem is, is there a way to print
>encapuslated postscript on a regular postscript printer?  Is ther a unix

I have been doing this for quit some time now on printers tied to VAX's at 
work.  The key I found was to edit the postscript file and remove the 
first line or so of control characters.  The first line of the file should 
begin with 

    %!PS-Adobe....

This will probably clear up your problem.

/chris

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q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) (09/21/90)

In article <NAGENDRA.90Sep20094351@bucsf.bu.edu>, nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes:
> Or is there a program on for a mac in which you can load in AppleworksGS
> files and print it on a laserwriter?
> thanks

Yes, it is called Send PS 2.0 (for the Mac).  It is available in various
Mac archives in BinHex format.  ( I can't name one off of the top of 
my head)
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MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET (09/23/90)

>> Or is there a program on for a Mac in which you can load in AppleworksGS
>> files and print it on a laserwriter?

Yes.  I think MacWrite II will load in Appleworks GS files.

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cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal]) (09/27/90)

In article <NAGENDRA.90Sep20094351@bucsf.bu.edu> nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes:
>Just a question
>
[...]
>it. If you press open-apple F it prints to a file on the disk.
>If you download the file to a unix system and try to print to a postscript
>printer, nothing works.  Only problem is, is there a way to print
>encapuslated postscript on a regular postscript printer?  Is ther a unix
>utility which will change the file?

Haven't tried this with GS postscript files, don't know if it'd work.  
There's a unix utility called 'macps' that will munge the 'appleprep'
header file so that standard laserprinters will accept the file.  Been 
a couple years since I had to go and find it, try the sumex-aim ftp
site at stanford, or your local macintosh archive.


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