ProWrite PS pure?
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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows if ProWrite outputs an encapsulated or
pure PostScript output? I was going to take a PS file up to a print shop
and have them print it and they asked the above and I didn't know. Thanks
for your help.
-Sean
Sean,
ProWrite does not output encapsulated postscript. I am not sure what your
service bureau means by pure but our postscript output is what would be sent
directly to a printer.
Randy Brooks
New Horizons Software, Inc.
Randy,
Are you guys over on AmigaVend? I probably should have asked there,
huh? Thanks for the help. I took my disk over there today and when I got
there they said they only had a Mac (I had the file on a disk pc
formatted). I wish they told me that before I went. Thanks for your
help.
-Sean
Sean,
Yes we have a forum over in Amiga Vendor, Section 5. We check in weekdays and
answer questions that pop up. I also read messages in many other sections
though I ususally respond to questions directly related to our products.
The fact that you had a PC disk shouldn't have fazed your service bureau. All
Macs since the late SE's have shiped with High Density drives driven by the
famed SWIM chip (Super Wozniak Interface Module) Using the "Apple File
Exchange" program you can move the file to their drive and download it to the
printer using the "LaserWriter Font Utility". All of these programs are
standard operating system fare and require no extra outlay on the part of the
service bureau.
Randy Brooks
New Horizons Software, Inc.
Thanks Randy,
I've come to the conclusion that nearly every print shop in Banbury
doesn't have a clue. I didn't go back to the folks that said they didn't
have a PC. I did go to a place that at first said their PC drive wouldn't
read my floppy. I don't know much about the PC world but assumed that my
floppy being formatted to 720K (or whatever it is around there) and it
being a high density disk confused the poor machine, so I put a bit of
tape over the high density hole and it worked. She told me to come back
in around 45 min., which I did and she handed me a print out of the PS
language commands! Is it difficult for the PC and Mac worlds to redirect
the data to the printer? I thought all that had to be done was to send
the file directly to the PS compatable printer who would then translate
and print it. Everyone is more concerned with what program I've been
using to make the file (is there some well known PC program that would
produce similar output that I can tell them produced it to ease their
minds, or would you rather I not malign your product like that? <g>). I
thought PS was device independent, as it were. Thanks for listening to my
gripes about small town print shops. <g>
-Sean
Sean,
It sounds like they loaded your file into a text editor and then printed
it using the print feature. Your file should have been copied to the port
that connects the Postscript device to their computer.
My example follows:
C:\ > copy b:\filename.PS LPT1: REM >I believe this should work for you.
Chris
Chris,
Thank you very much for your example. I think I'll print it out and
take it with me.
-Sean
Sean,
In the Mac world users are accustomed to clicking on the file's icon and
choosing print from the File menu. Alas this will not work with a PostScript
file. The file must be downloaded to the printer using a utility such as
"LaserWriter Font Utility" or "SendPS". In the PC world the file should just be
copied to the appropriate port "Copy FileName LPT1:" Since it is a postscript
file they will not be able to view it prior to printing. Hope this makes things
a little clearer.
Randy Brooks
New Horizons Software, Inc.
Thanks, Randy. I think I'll bring your post along with me too and see if
they recognize any of the tools you've mentioned. My luck they'll be
hidden away in some drawer (or what ever Mac folks call directories) that
they've never looked in before. Thanks again, it did make it clearer.
-Sean
Sean,
Actually they call them folders, and they call requesters dialogues, and they
call multifinder multitasking NOT! 🙂
Randy Brooks
New Horizons Software, Inc.
It isn't just small town print shops, believe me.
-larry
Glad to know I'm not alone, Larry. <g>
-Sean