Re: Postscript printing on IIgs?

[lstrand@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Leif Cullen Strand)]

>
>I'm wondering if anybody's written a program on the GS that lets you print
>to a postscript file from various programs.  Basically I'm looking for a
>postscript file printer driver.
>

The LaserWriter driver that comes with the system software can do this; if
my memory serves me correctly, you hold down Apple-F while you press the
"Print" button, and all the PostScript commands will be spooled to a file in
the Drivers folder, instead of being sent to a printer.

Presumably you would only want to do this if you don't have a LaserWriter
connected directly to your GS via AppleTalk.  Before System 6.0, the
LaserWriter driver would not work without AppleTalk active, so AppleTalk-less
users had to employ the Apple-F mechanism in conjunction with another easter
egg:  renaming the driver to "LaserSpooler" (or anything else, I think) would
allow you to use the driver without AppleTalk, either through the Apple-F
spooling mechanism or a direct serial connection to a LaserWriter.

The LaserWriter driver that comes with System 6.0 doesn't care if AppleTalk is
active (regarless of its filename), so if you have 6.0 you may disregard the
last paragraph.

--Leif Strand