Re: Printing PostScript

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salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote:

>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).

In your case, you will have to use the LaserWriter driver of GS/OS
System 6.0 to "print to postscript."  To clarify, any GS/OS desktop
program, as you know, simply passes the rendered output of the
program to the printer driver when you choose print from the file
menu.  When the LaserWriter driver is installed, you can initiate
a key sequence while clicking on print to reroute the PostScript
to a file in your GS' hard drive rather than to a physical printer.
Then you simply take this GS file and route it through your
network to your PCs where you can print them out.

This works even if you DON'T have a Postscript printer.  I've taken
AppleWorks GS page layout documents, printed them on the
IIGS via the LaserWriter driver, used MUG! to put them on
MS-DOS disks and taken them over to my PC and opened them
with CorelDRAW's PostScript import, then printed them out to
my (non-Postscript) ink-jet printer.  In this case, CorelDRAW
does all the rendering for my printer.

With Postscript, you can take ANY output from any IIGS
desktop program over to any computer, Mac or PC.

By the way, you need the LaserWriter driver from System 6.0,
not System 6.0.1.  The 6.0.1 one does not like non-Apple
postscript printers for some reason.  Just physically copy the
6.0 driver over and replace the 6.0.1 one in your drivers folder.