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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 PowerPC-compatible,
- as well.
-
- 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 is based on DropShell, by Leonard Rosenthol et. al., and
- also contains code written for GCC Technologies. Distribution is
- with the permission of GCC Technologies.
-
- Drop•PS is free, and may be freely distributed by and for any
- non-commercial or non-profit venture. You may not charge for Drop•PS
- above and beyond any routine connect-time and downloading charges.
- You may not re-distribute Drop•PS as part of a commercial product,
- or use it as incentive to purchase a product, without my express
- written permission.
-
- Drop•PS is part of a growing family of fine commercial and freeware
- products from Bare Bones Software. For additional information, send
- electronic mail to bbedit@world.std.com on the Internet,
- BARE.BONES on AppleLink, or to 73051,3255 on CIS. You may also
- write to:
-
- Bare Bones Software
- 1 Larkspur Way #4
- Natick, MA 01760
- Fax: (508) 651-7584
-
- This file was created by BBEdit 2.5. For more information about BBEdit,
- send e-mail, fax or write to the address above.
-
- Drop•PS is written by and ©1993, 1994 Richard M. Siegel; all rights reserved.
- PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems.
- AppleTalk is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
- PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
-
- Update Notes
- ------ -----
-
- Version 1.1
-
- - 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.
-