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- This file was created by BBEdit 3.0, a product of Bare Bones Software,
- Inc. It was composed using Monaco 9, with four spaces per tab.
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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.
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- 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.)
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- 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 the express written
- permission of Bare Bones Software, Inc.
-
- 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 bbsw@netcom.com on the Internet, BARE.BONES on
- AppleLink, or to 73051,3255 on CIS. You may also write to:
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- Bare Bones Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 108
- Bedford, MA 01730
- Fax: (508) 651-7584
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- This file was created by BBEdit 3.0. For more information about BBEdit,
- send e-mail, fax or write to the address above.
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- Drop•PS is copyright ©1994 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 1.1.2
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- - Cured 64-printer limit on the number of printers shown in
- the device-chooser dialog; the new limit is 512.
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- - 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.
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- 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.
-