Does your 386 PC/UNIX system allow you to receive PostScript error
messages? I suspect that you may be having trouble getting your MacDraw and
ReadySetGo files to run because you haven't loaded the Apple header into
memory. (There may be a PostScript error message that you're not
receiving.) The header which is created with Command-K on a Macintosh needs
to be edited to make it permanent so it will persist in the RIP's memory.
At the beginning of the header insert the line:
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
The problem with special characters in PageMaker PostScript files is caused
by the fact that PageMaker incorrectly calls out quotes, bullets, etc.
using higher order bits, rather than the Red Book documented method of
referring to pi characters by their PostScript octal codes. If output with
Macintosh downloading software, this is compensated for. When output from
your PC/Unix system, the higher order bits are stripped, and you get R, S
or U. You'll have to construct a translate table to convert them. You'll
need to look at the characters with a program that examines the hex
values.