Re: PostScript from a IIgs

[lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School)]

bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters) writes:
> Sometime ago I saw a post by someone (Gareth Jones?)
> giving instructions on how one could create a PostScript
> file on an HFS disk from GraphicWriter III or AppleWorks
> GS that could subsequently be printed by a Mac at
> Kinko's. Unfortunately, it seems that I somehow didn't
> save this post - even though I thought I did at the time!

Make sure the LaserWriter driver is chosen in the control panel, then 
when you go to print and the print dialog comes up, hold down command-f 
while clicking the "OK" button.  Your postscript file will be in the 
drivers folder within the system folder and will be named PostScript.xxx 
where xxx is either 001 or an incrementally increasing number based upon 
how many postscript files you have in there.  (Note: I could be wrong on 
that number. It could be only a two digit number. I don't remember.)

> > When I recently tried installing the LaserWriter driver 
> it seems that AppleTalk is also required. Is this true?
> (The Install program seemed to think so.)

This is normal behavior for the installer.  If you don't have AppleTalk, 
just get rid of all the AppleTalk related files and the NetPrinter 
control panel.  All you really need in the LaserWriter driver in your 
drivers folder and the DCPrinter control panel in your CDevs folder.  You 
can do this by hand rather than using the installer.

> > My purpose in all this was to try and figure out a way
> that someone that doesn't have all that much hardware can
> generate really great looking printouts.

That'll work.  I use to do this all the time until we got our LW 320 in 
the office.

Greg
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