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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
-
- Copyright (c) 1988, The Trustees of the University of California.
- Edward Moy, Workstation Software Support Group, Workstation Support Serices,
- Information Systems and Technology.
-
- Permission is granted to any individual or institution to use, copy,
- or redistribute this software so long as it is not sold for profit,
- provided that this notice and the original copyright notices are
- retained. The University of California makes no representations about the
- suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
- without express or implied warranty.
-
- WHAT IS MACPS?
-
- Macps is a Unix program that takes a PostScript file created on a Macintosh
- by typing Command-F to the LaserWriter dialog box (see macps.1 for more
- details) and includes an appropriately modified LaserPrep file so that
- the result can be sent to a PostScript printer from Unix. The LaserPrep
- file contains macros used by the PostScript generator on the Macintosh.
-
- WHICH VERSION OF THE LASERPREP WILL BE USED?
-
- Macps interprets the %%IncludeProcSet directive found in the PostScript
- generated by LaserWriter driver 4.0 and greater. It takes the ProcSet
- id and looks it up in a file "macps.config", to get the pathname of the
- prep file, and thus macps can convert PostScript generated by different
- versions of the LaserWriter driver (as well as from applications that
- have their own ProcSet, such as FullWrite Professional, Aldus PageMaker
- or Adobe Illustrator.
-
- HOW ARE THE PROCSETS GENERATED?
-
- Since the Apple LaserPrep files are copyrighted, I've included a program,
- prepfix, that reads version 4.0 and up LaserPrep files, and edits them
- so that they are compatible with Unix (and are even electronically mailable).
- (See prepfix.1 for more details.) Other ProcSets will have to be done
- manually.
-
- WHERE IS THE MACPS.CONFIG FILE LOCATED?
-
- Macps has some special code that is able to figure out from which directory
- it was called from. The macps.config file is expected to be in a "lib"
- sub-directory.
-
- WHAT ABOUT BIT-SMOOTHING ON NON-LASERWRITER PRINTERS?
-
- For PostScript printers using Motorola 680x0 processors and Adobe PostScript
- firmware other than LaserWriters, there are options that will allow these
- printers to do bit-smoothing, just like LaserWriters.
-