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- From: (Tim Keitt)
- Subject: re: Suppressing Control-D prepend on Postscrpt files
- Message-ID: <32+rt3@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 03:44:55 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
- References: <1992Dec14.204109.25177@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Reply-To: tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu
- Keywords: control-d postscript
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- In article <1992Dec14.204109.25177@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins) writes:
- >Today I spend some time on the phone with a Microsoft support rep
- >dealing with various problems. One was that the Control-D that's
- >prepended to Postscript files causes problems of various sorts.
- >I asked how to suppress it. I was told to put a line
- >
- > ControlD=0
- >
- >in the statements defining my chosen printer in WIN.INI. I did so
- >and there was no effect. It occurs to me that I may have misspelled
- >ControlD; other permutations did no good, either. Can someone tell
- >me the proper way to specify this?
- >
- >Also, while I'm asking: Does anyone know if I can tell Windows to
- >fire up my PC's 'lpr' utility? As is, I have to do this manually
- >after printing to a physical file. I'd rather have Windows fire this
- >off to my chosen printer directly.
- >
- >Thanks for any pointers you can provide.
- >
- >/rich
-
- This works for me:
-
- [PostScript,FILE]
- ATM=placeholder
- CtrlD=0
-
- [Apple LaserWriter Plus,FILE]
- feed1=1
- feed4=1
- EpsFile=d:\print\win.eps
- orient=1
- advflags=542
- CtrlD=0
- EPS=0
-
- [PostScript,EPT]
- ATM=placeholder
- CtrlD=0
-
- I've also been interested in finding a program that will
- transparently print from windows to our Sparcprinter. It
- wouldn't be difficult to write a program to occaisionally scan
- a directory for a print file and send it to the printer if one
- is found, but I haven't gotten around to doing it. I've noticed
- that QVT/NET has some transparent printing options, but I've
- never figured out how to implement this feature. Anyone else
- have an idea?
-
- --
- Timothy Keitt
- tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu
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