Re: Printing PostScript

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <9lq0r8$g6a$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca>,
Byron Desnoyers Winmill <wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>I can convert pdf files to postscript on a remote system, now I would like to
>dump the postscript file to a localtalked postscript printer.  For those
>familiar with the mac, this is something you would do with the 'print
>postscript' command in bbedit, or via 'drop ps'.  How would I go about this on
>a IIgs?

If you can get a serial connection to the printer (Apple's older
LaserWriters had serial ports for this purpose), maybe you could zap the
file over with a comm program such as ProTERM.  If only LocalTalk is
available, though...can you drop to BASIC.SYSTEM and print from there?  If
so, does your print job go to the printer unedited or does it get munged
along the way (with the Imagewriter emulator, for instance)?  If you can
send PostScript to it from BASIC, you might be able to cobble together a
small program to send the file from there.  I have LocalTalk between my GS
and my Mac, but my PostScript printer (a Lexmark Optra Color 40) hangs off
of a homebrew Athlon box running Win2K, and there's a homebrew K6-3 box
running Linux tying it all together.  I have yet to even get the Mac to
print, let alone the GS (which won't see netatalk on the Linux box, except
maybe as guest, and I can't even get that to work).

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