[comp.sys.mac.misc] printing PostScript files

shirley@washington.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) (06/04/91)

Could someone help me the Mac people in my office are useless!

We have PS files.  We have a PS printer.  How do we print the files
w/o getting umpteen pages of PS code?  MacOS 6.? and/or 7.0

Please email.

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long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) (06/04/91)

In article <1991Jun3.193723.2512@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, shirley@washington.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley) writes...
>We have PS files.  We have a PS printer.  How do we print the files
>w/o getting umpteen pages of PS code?  MacOS 6.? and/or 7.0

 This is such a common question... There is a utility on the Apple distribution
 called Laserwriter Font Utility. It will, among other things, download a
 Postscript file to the printer. I don't know if it works with non-Apple
 Postscript printers, but you can try.

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