Subject: 8 Computer-specific PostScript 

    This section describes PostScript information specific to a 
    particular type of computer or operating system. 


Subject: 8.1 Sun Workstations 

    What is NeWS? 

    NeWS is Sun Microsystems PostScript-based window system for the Sun 
    Workstation. NeWS was a project within Sun (started around 1985) to 
    create a window system to supplant SunView (a very successful 
    kernel-based window system). NeWS is a client-server model window 
    system (like X) but among many of NeWS novel features was the use 
    of PostScript as the language to describe the appearance of objects 
    on the screen. NeWS has many features in common with Display 
    PostScript, but NeWS predates Adobe Display PostScript and was 
    neither connected with Adobe Display PostScript nor endorsed by 
    Adobe. NeWS is not an Adobe product, nor is it a Sun/Adobe joint 
    venture. 

    As of October 1992, Sun management signed a deal with Adobe to 
    adopt Display PostScript for the Sun. The future of NeWS is still 
    undecided (but it looks bad). 

    And how does PostScript run on them? 

    PostScript runs on NeWS, although NeWS is not a fully-compliant 
    PostScript interpreter. There were incompatibilities between the 
    NeWS PostScript interpreter and ``official'' PostScript 
    interpreters as defined by Adobe and the Apple LaserWriter family 
    of printers, such that many PostScript files which would print fine 
    on a LaserWriter would not render under NeWS. The most critical 
    incompatibility was the lack of support for Adobe Type 1 fonts, Sun 
    having gone with their own font format known as F3. 


Subject: 8.2 IBM PC 

    You can find nenscript for OS/2 1.x--2.0 and MSDOS on 
    ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/uploads/nensc113.zip. 

    There are rumors that Word Perfect and Microsoft Word don't produce 
    ``clean'' PostScript that follows the DSC conventions (See Section 
    9, ``Encapsulated PostScript''). This means that a lot of 
    PostScript utilities like Ghostview and psnup, etc., that require 
    the DSC conventions, will not work on them. 

    Creating a PostScript file from MS Word 

    Install the LaserWriter driver that comes with Windows.In the 
    printer setup, select a PostScript printer. Then click on the setup 
    button to get that pop-up. Then clik the Options button. Then 
    select the print to Encapsulated PostScript File. If you don't 
    specify a file name, Word will prompt you for one when you tell it 
    to print. 

    When printing Microsoft Windows files that have been captured on a 
    PC's LPT port, you mostly need to define two ctrl-d's in a row as 
    well to remove all of them in the document: 

  
  (\004\004) cvn {} def
  

Subject: 8.3 Apple Macintosh 

    For more details about printing with the Macintosh, read the 
    comp.sys.mac.apps FAQ. 

    How can I convert a PostScript file created with a UNIX program to 
    the Mac? 

    A way that is clumsy, but works, is this: 



   1. Display the UNIX-based PostScript file on screen 


   2. Use window dumping facility to get a bitmap file 


   3. Convert the above bitmap file to TIFF format and then export it 
      to Adobe Illustrator on the Mac. 

    The PostScript section of the FAQ for the Macintosh newsgroup 
    comp.sys.mac.app (maintained by Elliotte Harold) answers the 
    following questions: 



    * How do I make a PostScript file? 


    * How do I print a PostScript file? 


    * Why won't my PostScript file print on my mainframe's printer? 

      Full documentation of this process provided with a utility called 
      macps. 


    * Why are my PostScript files so big?