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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1160.0. "PostScript translator" by WINNER::JBERNARD (John Bernard YWO/292-2591) Fri Feb 12 1988 08:03

    Anyone out there know of a generic postscript driver for the Amiga?
    I have a Scriptprinter, and the Apple Laserwriter  driver doesnt
    appear to work with it.  Probably because it uses some Laserwriter
    specific calls.
    
    Citydesk, the only PS generating program I have, probably talks
    directly to the SER: port, and works fine.  IFF2PS works fine for
    picture files, again having to copy to SER:.  Now I'm looking for
    for a text file to PS translator or, better still, a generic PS
    printer driver.  Is there one out there or should I start building
    a translator?
    
    Thanks,
    John
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1160.1This problem has been solved beforePRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeff LomickaFri Feb 12 1988 12:3317
It is usually VERY EASY to write a little bit of PostScript that you
prepend to an file intended for the Apple Laserwriter which will allow
it to be printed on an LN03-Scout or on an LPS40.

Also, a generic text to PostScript program IN POSTSCRIPT exists in the
PostScript notesfile topic number 7.  You just prepend it to the text
file, and send it to the printer.  There is a program for doing this
also, but it's in BLISS, and we don't have a BLISS compiler for the
68000 yet.  Also Bob Messenger has a Runoff subset that generates
PostScript that is written in C, harass him at VIDEO::MESSENGER if you
want to finish it for him.

I would suggest that you hunt around in REGENT::POSTSCRIPT in the
topics that discuss this problem.  A search for "apple" or "laserwriter"
should produce something.

	- Jeff (who wrote a PostScript interpreter once)
1160.2All set!WINNER::JBERNARDJohn Bernard YWO/292-2591Fri Feb 19 1988 11:5210
    Thanks for the pointer!  I also found a print utility on PLINK along
    with the C source.  I hacked this and it works fine.  I use the
    Scout for a newsletter through Citydesk, but it was nice to be able
    to send a text file to the laser printer without resetting prefs,
    etc.  
    
    If anyone is interested in this pgm, I'll upload it.
    
    John