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- From: rwein@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Robert A. Wein)
- Subject: Re: Any Substitute for SendPS ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.222925.4645@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:29:25 GMT
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- ivab015@chpc.utexas.edu (Albert Wu) writes:
- : Hi, friends. Adobe used to give out an application called SendPS to be
- : used for sending PS files to printers. Apparently, when invoked, SendPS
- : always searches for a printer named Laserwriter, and it does not
- : recognize anything named otherwise. I wonder if there is a new version
-
- My version of SendPS seems to look for whatever laser is chosen in the
- chooser, and will dig through a big appletalk network to find it.
- I don't know what version it is.
-
- : that works with networked Laserwriters with arbitrary names, or if
- : there are other shareware or freeware that do the job.
-
- Apple released a small utility with the System7 disks called LaserWriter
- Font Utility, and allows the user to send a postscript file to a laser
- (chooser decided), as well as other handy tasks (downloading fonts).
- If your system disks do not have it, ask your dealer and he/she should
- make it readily available since it is still in the domain of free system
- software.
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