jeffrey@emx.utexas.edu (Jeff Achtermann) (11/16/90)
Hi! I'm having no luck printing postscript files generated with MicroSoft Works (version 2.0A) from an Apple Laser Writer attached to a mainframe. I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I've had no problem printing postscript files generated with WordPerfect but have been totally unsuccessful with MicroSoft Works. After printing my document to a file I upload both the postscript file and the postscrp.ini file (MicroSoft's postscript initialization file) to the mainframe. Then I print out the postscript.ini file followed by my postscript file. Alas, while the Laser Writer lights flash nothing ever comes out. At the suggestion of MicroSoft Help I've tried removing the cntrl-D at the end of the postscrp.ini file and also removing the line "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" from the beginning of my file. Now my file prints out as the raw postscript file (not very pretty :-). Unfortunately MicroSoft help has no further suggestions. Has anyone been successful at this? Would MicroSoft Word work any better? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Achtermann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Achtermann Internet: jeffrey@astro.as.utexas.edu MaBell: 512-471-1477 Astronomy Dept., RLM 15.308, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1083 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
deen@kinks.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin) (11/17/90)
You need the "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" at the very beginning of the file. It's the postscript escape sequence. If your running Unix, it tell's lpr or lp to interpret the file as poscript rather than raw text, or at least that's the way I heard it. Anyway you need that as the absolute first line. When you say you print both files are they concatenated or just sent one after the other? They have to be concatenated Make sure you take out the ^Z that DOS leaves at the end of files. This screws things up. I print a lot of files from MS WORD using this technique so it can be done, just hack about with it. ...LATER... -Z Raisin -- --- "May The Prezent Tenz Be With You." -The Super Amazin Cinnamon Raisin deen@romulus.rutgers.edu