[500] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: Printing to Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Sun Apr 9 04:00:19 1995
To: Joseph Giaime <giaime@tristan.mit.edu>
Cc: jpatter@MIT.EDU, os2partners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 08 Apr 1995 17:21:24 -0400.
<9504082123.AA06089@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 03:59:36 EDT
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
|> Make sure the first line of the file is correct postscript. the HP
|> printers are very picky about that.
|>
|> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
|>
|> (or 3.0) should appear. No stinkin %!Postscript is accepted. No
|> control-D. Adobe wrote the interpreter for HP, and is very strict
|> about their trademark.
I don't think this is important to the needs of printing to athena printers,
since the files are going through athena's print daemon, not simply being
filtered by the HP. I just successfully got both
%!
test
and
%!PS-Adobe
test
to respond with the postscript error "test command undefined" instead of
printing out the relevant code.
|> I checked the files. I knew that I had to delete the header, and had done
|> that but I noticed that the PS-Adobe line is different in the windows file
|> and the OS/2 file.
Define "delete the header"? The first line of the file you send to the
printer must, as far as I know, start with the characters "%!" for it to be
interpreted as PostScript code by the athena print servers.
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