philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (05/21/91)
I've been experimenting further with printing System 7 LaserWriter driver PostScript to a unix-based DEC laser printer. A document that only printed up to page 3 now prints successfully with ATM turned off. It seems the TrueType scaler worked correctly. It seems strange that Apple's software worked OK, whereas Adobe's ATM didn't (they wrote the PostScript interpreter after all). I didn't have time to try all combinations (like removing the TrueType versions of Times and Helvetica from System, to see if they were somehow interfering with ATM). If you need to use ATM and are having problems printing, try this. For now, I am going to turn ATM off when generating PostScript to be printed via a unix machine. Compared with the System 6 world, this is now pretty painless - as I mentioned before, print to file is now a standard feature, which works with background printing, and the resulting PostScript doesn't need to be hacked to work elsewhere. Thanks to Larry Rosenstein for pursuading me this ought to work. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu