keene@ecs.umass.edu (11/20/90)
I'm using Microsoft Windows v3.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 to create a postcript output file that I can upload to our VAX VMS system and send to a LPS40. I've installed the postscript driver through windows and selected the LPS40, and specified the output to be send to a file. But when I download the file to the VAX and type LPSTEXT file.name all I get is a printout of the postcript instructions!!! Please E-Mail any ideas. Thanks, Desparately, Stefan Keene
bosch@cs.utwente.nl (J. Christian A. Peper) (11/22/90)
About that problem when you try and upload a Postscript file to the VAX and then print it on an LPS40... You did everything right, except.....You HAVE tell the LPS that it is going receive a Postscript file. Even though it is ASCII, you have to tell the printer"engine" that it has decode those ASCII instruction as being PS.... So, if I recall, you should send it to the printer by using the following command: $PRINT/QUE=<printername>/PARAM=(NUM=0,DATA=POST) If you do this, then it'll work fine....(I think..) If not, tell us what happend...:-) Later, dudes... Chris. -- Christian Peper | The speed of light...If not instantaneous, bosch@utis15.cs.utwente.nl | it is incredibly fast! - Gallileo aka Dreams, aka Sexy Dutchman | Spaarnestr. 73; 7523 VK Enschede, Holland i----------------------------------------------------------------------------i
mcadoo@ijsapl.dec.com (Alan McAdoo) (11/22/90)
In article <11480.274868de@ecs.umass.edu>, keene@ecs.umass.edu writes... >I'm using Microsoft Windows v3.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 to >create a postcript output file that I can upload to our VAX VMS system and >send to a LPS40. I've installed the postscript driver through windows and >selected the LPS40, and specified the output to be send to a file. But >when I download the file to the VAX and type LPSTEXT file.name all I get is >a printout of the postcript instructions!!! > >Please E-Mail any ideas. > >Thanks, >Desparately, > >Stefan Keene Stefan, You are printing the contents of your "ascii text" file, by specifying a "text printer". You need to specify, that the LPS-40 should interpret the "text" as Postscript. I do this with the following VMS Command :- >print/queue=printer/param=data=post file.name Try calling VMS Help > Help printserver. regards, _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." Alan McAdoo Internet: mcadoo@ijsapl.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!ijsapl.enet!mcadoo Europalaan 44 CompuServe: 100016,1632 Utrecht, Holland _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
laitinen@eemeli.enet.dec.com (Esa Laitinen) (11/30/90)
I think quite often you have separate generic queues for different kinds of text, for example printer_ps for postscript, printer_ansi for ansi-text. Then you don't have to put any parameters to print command other than the right queue. -- Esa Laitinen Aka ela@casino.fidonet.org, 2:515/801@fidonet Either you're out or you're out.