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- contains tabs and 8-bit characters, which may not survive transport
- across a 7-bit medium (such as email).
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- About Drop•PS
-
- Drop•PS (“DPS”) is a utility to send text files containing PostScript™
- code to any PostScript printer connected to an AppleTalk™ network. To
- send a file, folder full of files, or disk full of files, simply drop it
- onto the DPS application or an alias to the application. You can also
- drop multiple files, folders, or disks at once.
-
- (DPS can also download EPSF-format files.)
-
- DPS does its work independently of any installed printer drivers, so you
- don’t need to have the LaserWriter driver installed. DPS is System 7-
- compatible, 32-bit clean, and 68040- and Power Macintosh-compatible.
-
- When you run DPS for the first time, it will ask you to choose a
- printer. Thereafter, items that you drop onto DPS will be downloaded to
- that printer. (The name and zone of the currently selected printer are
- displayed in the window that DPS opens up when you launch it without any
- documents.) You can change the printer by using the “Preferences...”
- command from the File menu. DPS remembers your choice across launches.
-
- In the Preferences dialog, you can determine whether Drop•PS prepends a
- PostScript title header (version 2.0), and whether the settings are
- stored within the Drop•PS application itself, or in a separate
- preferences file. (Storing settings in the Drop•PS application can be
- useful if you would like to set up multiple copies of DPS, with each one
- set to send to a different printer.)
-
- Drop•PS was written by Rich Siegel, with assistance from Leonard
- Rosenthol and several others.
-
- Drop•PS is freeware. You may not re-distribute Drop•PS as part of a
- commercial product, or use it as incentive to purchase a product,
- without the express written permission of Bare Bones Software, Inc.
-
- To learn more about our collection of fine freeware and commercial
- products, please visit our Web site, send us email, or write:
-
- Bare Bones Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 1048
- Bedford, MA 01730-1048
- phone (617) 778-3100
- fax (617) 778-3111
- email: bbsw@barebones.com (general info)
- support@barebones.com (tech support)
- Web: http://www.barebones.com
-
- Please note that we are unable to provide telephone or fax support
- for our freeware products. For tech support, please send email to
- <support@barebones.com>.
-
- Drop•PS is copyright ©1994-96 Bare Bones Software, Inc.; all rights reserved.
- PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems.
- Macintosh and AppleTalk are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- Limited warranty and limitation of remedies
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- The program and any support from Bare Bones Software, Inc., are provided
- “as is” and without warranty , express and implied, including but not
- limited to any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
- particular purpose. In no event will Bare Bones Software, Inc. be
- liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other
- incidental or consequential damages, even if Bare Bones Software, Inc.
- is advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by you
- or any third party.
-
- Update Notes
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- version 1.1.4
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- - updated contact information in About box and documentation
-
- - now uses embedded PAP client code.
-
- Version 1.1.3
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- - Fixed bug which prevented Drop*PS from seeing printers in
- zones other than the default one.
-
- Version 1.1.2
-
- - Cured 64-printer limit on the number of printers shown in
- the device-chooser dialog; the new limit is 512.
-
- - DPS no longer remembers the numeric network ID of the printer,
- which should resolve timeouts which would occur on busy networks
- when the printer was restarted between invocations of DPS.
-
- Version 1.1.1
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- - Fixed bug in which error alert would appear offscreen, leading
- the user to believe that DPS was hung.
-
- Version 1.1
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- - added ability to download EPSF files.
-
- - extended Preferences to support saving within DPS itself,
- and to provide for prepending PostScript title information.
-
- - made internal changes which make it easier to use DPS as
- a scriptable component.
-
- - fixed deviant behavior that would occur if the selected
- printer became unavailable.
-