Subject: LaserWriter 8.0 fixes for papd anyone?
From: Thomas Tornblom (Thomas.Tornblom@Nexus.Comm.SE)
Date: Fri Aug 27 1993 - 10:31:24 EDT
> I've just got a document from Adobe, "Tips for Writing a Print
> Spooler", that describes what a spooler such as papd has to do to work
> with LW 8.0. I will hack papd to support this if no one else is doing
> it.
Can you tell me how to get a copy of that document? If you do any work on
papd, be sure to start with the 1.3b2 version. The changes I made were based
on the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions 3.0 and on observation of the
8.0 driver's behavior.
I got a draft paper, "Compatibility Tips for Macintosh Applications
and the New Postscript Printer Driver", from a friend. I think it is
from either Apple or Adobe. This other paper was mentioned in it and I
attacked the first person I saw from adobe in
comp.languages.postscript ;-). He sent me this paper. I have it
gzip:ed and uuencoded (~82k).
Drop me a note those who are interested and I'll fork it off.
I have brought the 1.3b2 version here and will take it home for some
hacking. I have also done a few mods to parts of 1.3u to map between
the mac character set and ISO-8859-1, which the sun uses. I will try
to find the time to fix papd and send it back to Wes.
Thomas
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