~~~~~RE: Preview of Print Wizard 4

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>No, Mark, I think you're wrong.  The 3's were definitely rounded and looked
>exactly like the 2's.  The 4's are what changed to the flimsier square
>construction.

My 4M Plus is definatly squarish, but flimsy is not an adjective
anyone who has lifted one would apply.  This critter definately
keeps my desk from flying away.

>Are we going to have to get pictures at 20 paces now.  

If necessary (remember though that attachments are likely to be
detachments on the FP list :-).

As for needing drivers for PostScript, none are necessary on *nix
systems beyond sending the PS directly to the printer which can
automatically detect it if one doesn't send specific
initialization strings.

It's been years since I looked inside Microsoft generated
PostScript, but it used to add all sorts of cruft including
commands to talk to the printer and request return data which had
to be stripped out before sending the files to a *nix print
spool.  I would have to look at 20-year old perl code to see what
my interface scripts to to clean this up.

At one time, I had a printer to fax interface that would look
inside Postcript send from Microsoft Word to extract info from
the fax header page then forward to HylaFAX (nee FlexFax) for
delivery.

Bill
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