sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart Fleming) (05/30/91)
My gripe of the month about System 7 concerns the printing of PostScript to disk file rather than directly to an attached printer. I need do this to transfer the file to a Unix box for printing there. With System 6.0.7 and a document printed from Word 4.0, I get a modest file size of about 30Kbytes (not including LaserPrep). The same document printed under System 7 runs to over 1 megabyte. The bulk of the PostScript file seems to be taken up with bitmap representations of TrueType fonts. I presume that when printing directly, the printer driver will query the printer for the PostScript equivalents; obviously this is not possible with printing to file. Or does it print using the bitmaps ? At the moment, the printing facilities of System 7 are usable for me. Can anyone suggest a solution for getting smaller file sizes for PostScript printed to a file, as per 6.0.7 ? Thanks, STF -- sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk ...ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!sfleming Author: RDS/RP radiopaging relay. Happy paging in Sweden : 1992 and beyond. (Doesn't look as good as a game credit, does it ? And, no - I don't get royalties for each call.)
umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/31/91)
We've had lots of gripes about how large the new LaserPrinter print to file files are and how life was so much better under 6.0.7. I'd just like to defend Apple on this one by stating that I tried very hard using about 6 different programs to patch the postscript at either the Mac or the UNIX end, and I only once managed to get a 6.07 postcript disk file to print on our UNIX system. To do that, I had to use som LaserWriter driver that was about six years old, and some of my fancy fonts weren't printed properly. The new scheme may eat up lots of temporary disk space and transfer time, but it *works* and I for one thank Apple for it. Maynard Handley
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May31.020609.5174@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: |> We've had lots of gripes about how large the new LaserPrinter print to file |> files are and how life was so much better under 6.0.7. I'd just like to defend |> Apple on this one by stating that I tried very hard using about 6 different |> programs to patch the postscript at either the Mac or the UNIX end, and I only |> once managed to get a 6.07 postcript disk file to print on our UNIX system. To |> do that, I had to use som LaserWriter driver that was about six years old, and |> some of my fancy fonts weren't printed properly. |> |> The new scheme may eat up lots of temporary disk space and transfer time, but |> it *works* and I for one thank Apple for it. Right - but there's no harm in asking for improvements in the next release. I would like some way of telling the driver what fonts it can expect to find in the target printer, so it doesn't include them in the generated PostScript. My short term solution is to switch to a faster ftp program (I'm trying XferIt 1.4, which seems much faster than MacIP) and to avoid printing when the printer's in demand. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu