Re: [WinMac] RE: Mac printing in PC world

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:58:56 -0400

At 4:44 PM -0400 8/24/98, Victor Forberger wrote:
>Does DAVE also provide print drivers that allow printing from a Macintosh
>application to a non-postscript printer?
>
        Not that I know of. I believe that Dave also requires a Postscript
printer.

>If DAVE does not have the driver, and if the printer does not understand
>postscript, then it appears printing from the Mac is impossible without
>PowerPrint Pro. Am I wrong in this conclusion?
>
        Unless you go the PDF route.

>Hence, pdf files are no good either because no printer understands raw pdf.
>It has to be put through some driver in order to get HPL, postscript,
>Quickdraw, or whatever print language.
>
        Because you have the PDF printed out from the PC, which uses it's
own drivers to render the PDF to XX.

LDR
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