Re: Postscript to disk

[o9938156@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (mark lyon)]

u8902848@muss.cis.McMaster.CA (J.S. Rand) writes:
:   I am trying to get some postscript files created on my GS to
: print from a PC with a HP LPIII printer.  Using System 6.0.1,
: I copied the laserwriter driver into the driver directory 
: (renamed it postscript) and then selected it as my printer from
: the Direct Connect Control Panel.
: 
:   Then I print my document (from AWGS v1.1) and press the Apple-F
: sequence when I say OK.  I grab the postscript.gs00 file from 
: the drivers directory and send it by modem to the pc.
: 
:   I have tried changing the end of line character to the MSDOS
: eol (CR-LF isn't it?) and it doesn't help the problem.  What I
: do there is go into ghostscript under windows and try to load
: it.  Ghostscript gives me error 1.  Other postscript files
: created by WordPerfect under Windows load no problem into
: Ghostscript.
: 
:   Has anyone gotten these postscript files to import into
: ghostscript.  Does anyone have another way of going about this
: beyond moving the document physically to the pc (I thought of
: RTF through EGOed)?  Thanks.

I seem to remember that the GS puts an extra line at the beginning
of the file, but the easy way to check is look at a postscript
file on your pc, and compare to the GS.  I think the first line
should have something like "%%Adobe blah blah blah," but I
don't remember for sure.  Hope this horribly vague info helps
a little bit! :)

: 
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