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Printers and Spectre
Mac mode) when you choose Print from the File menu. Hold down
Control-K until you see "Creating PostScript file on Disk". It won't
take very long to save the file to disk.
The newly created file, ''PostScriptO'', will usually show up in the
same place as application, or sometimes in your System Folder. If you
save several files, the name will change each time: PostScriptl,
PostScript2, etc.
Once you have the PostScript files on disk, you need to copy them
onto the MFS floppies you formatted earlier, or onto your MFS hard
disk partition. Then eject your Spectre disks and return to Atari mode.
(Either press Shift-Help, the reset button, or flip the power switch.)
Next, you need to use Transverter to get the PostScript files from
the MFS Spectre disks to ST disks that UltraScript can read. Here is a
quick overview (for more detail, see the Transverter chapter):
.. Run Transverter, and set the "from" and "to" drives.
Since you're Transverting Mac to ST, the "from" drive
should be either a Mac floppy or MFS partition, and
the "to" drive should be an ST partition or floppy.
.. Select Mac -> ST from the File menu, and transfer the
file as "TEXT". Don't worry about adding linefeeds,
since it works either way, and adding line feeds takes
longer to transvert.
.. When the file is done transverting, save it, then print it
using UltraScript.
To print your Mac PostScript file, just add the file to the
UltraScript list, and choose Print. There are a few things you need to be
aware of, though.
PostScript files can take a long, long, LONG, LONG time to print .
EDITOR: Kind of like the manual, right Dave? Long.
This isn't really UltraScript's fault. It just takes a long time to process
all the information in a PostScript file. Be prepared for waits of up
to 15 minutes for really complex documents, like greyscale pictures, to
print. Actually, average print times are pretty good; a full page of text
usually starts printing in about a minute.
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