💾 Archived View for mirrors.apple2.org.za › archive › apple.cabi.net › Utilities › Appletalk.and.rel… captured on 2023-05-25 at 00:35:29.

View Raw

More Information

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!gandalf
From: gandalf@csd.bu.edu (Lou Hennessy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS/OS Printing and Ghostscript
Message-ID: <103142@bu.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 92 21:00:26 GMT
References: <1992Nov12.062108.2413@utstat.uucp> <bazyar.721611829@teal> <1992Nov13.212102.5905@utstat.uucp>
Sender: news@bu.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Lines: 19
Originator: gandalf@csd



I'm assuming that you want Ghostscript for it's capability to download
arbitrary postscript to a printer and not for viewing it on the screen
which is the real benefit of Ghostscript.  If that's the case then there's
a utility called DLPS (it's only in Beta release) that's available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cco.caltech.edu in /pub/apple2/util that is supposed
to download postscript from a GS to a LaserWriter (I haven't tried it myself because I don't have a LaserWriter).  It might do what you're looking for.
As far as  color goes, not even the LaserWriter drivers on the Mac handle
color because color is Postscript Level 2 and Apple doesn't support it yet,
if you buy a color postscript printer, the printer company has to
supply you with a driver.

Lou Hennessy
Computer Science Department
Boston University
-- 
Lou Hennessy
User Services Coordinator