adm@einstein.canterbury.ac.nz (Andrew McGregor) (06/18/91)
In article <1991Jun13.172702.9085@dg-rtp.dg.com>, steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) writes: |> Under System 7.0 on the Macintosh I have created a Postscript file |> which I then uploaded to our DECstation and sent to our Laserwriter IINTX. |> |> Since the Laserwriter hasn't been initialized with a Macintosh, it dies |> on special macros in the Postscript file. I believe these macros are |> defined in the included file, AppleDict, and the Laserwriter doesn't |> have AppleDict installed in memory. Is there a way to include the |> AppleDict when creating the postscript file? Or is there a way to put it |> on the DECstation so that the DECstation can initialize the printer? |> -- I found a utility that does this on apple.com (sorry, can't find the IP address), it's called macPs , it's in /ArchiveVol2/Postscript and works great. It needs a copy of Laser Prep uploaded as well as the file to print. It runs as a filter when sending the file to the printer driver, and edits in a version of laser prep. A.D. Mcgregor