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- From: jwaller@terminus.terminus.com (John Waller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Postscript in WB1.3
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 01:32:40 GMT
- Organization: Second Foundation, Lompoc, CA
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- Dave Asgeirsson (asgeirss@sfu.ca) wrote:
- > Greetings. I suppose this is the best place to inquire the following:
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- > I have an old Amiga 500, and a brand-new Apple Laserwriter 600 dpi
- > postscript printer.
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- > I have ProWrite, which supports Postscript printing, but I do not have a
- > proper postscript driver for the system. Can anyone who has had success
- > using their amiga to drive a postscript printer give me some advice as to
- > what files I need, and where I can get them?
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- > The Apple laserwriter is supposed to be compatible with the HP Laserjet4.
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- > Thanks in advance, Dave Asgeirsson
- > (Please reply via email - asgeirss@sfu.ca)
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- Hmmmm, if you have Prowrite, and it supports Postscript, then you
- should not need a driver. A driver is not needed to write Postscript,
- unless you are converting non-Postscript to Postscript, like the Workbench
- Driver. All you are sending to a printer is a file in the Postcript
- language, so to print from Prowrite, all you SHOULD need to do is send
- your output to the PAR: (NOT PRT:) device, (you want the file to pass to
- the printer unmodified by the Workbench printer drivers :).
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- If you cannot do this, then maybe Prowrite is not fully Postscript
- compatible? I do not have Prowrite, so I cannot test it, but all the
- programs I have that support Postscript, do so with no problem. Again, it
- is essential to choose the PAR: device, not the PRT: device.
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- If you stil have problems, describe what you are doing in more
- detail, and Good Luck
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- John L. Waller
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