....on How to Print a Postscript File

Last Updated Jan 6, 1997

The Long Way	The Short Way	From Home
Go into Netscape Find the file Save it to disk Transfer it using FETCH to UNIX Login to UNIX Print the file from UNIX Goto the Printer and Select "FROM UNIX"	Login to UNIX Get list of all the Postscript Files Print the Files You Want Goto the Printer and Select "FROM UNIX"	You Must have a Postscript Print and and IBM Computer Go into Netscape Find the file Save it to disk Goto the Dos Prompt Copy the File to Lpt1

These printing instructions are only valid for campus computers. If you want to print at home, you must have a postscript printer and a manual. Read the manual. If you can't get it to work, don't bug the LAB TAs. Instead, use the campus printers!

Step 1: Get the File

• Click on the PS file in Netscape:

For example click on the hi-lighted word postscript in Dr. Kamstra's 333 page Netscape will ask you where you want to save the file.

• Save the PS file to Disk

You can either choose to save it to your own floppy disk, or you can choose to save it to the student-folder, which is located in the Macintosh HD.

• Once you have saved the PS file, you must exit Netscape

Step 2. Transfer the files to UNIX

Instructions for Macs in WMX

If you are using a Mac, you will want to use a program called Fetch. In the WMX labs do the following:

Open the File Folder SFU_WWF.MAC

Open the File Folder Netscape Navigator ^Tm 2.02 Folder

Scroll down a bit and Open the Program FETCH 3.0

Once fetch has opened, a New Connection Dialog Box will open. You will have to enter the following stuff into the box:

Change Host to fraser

Enter Your UNIX User ID

Enter Your UNIX Password

Change the directory from "pub" to nothing - and don't type in nothing. The space has to be empty, blank, void of any information

Hit the OK button

Once you are in Fetch, you must Hit the PUT FILE button. Another dialog box will come up on the screen. Now you have to

Choose your disk from the desk-top

High-light the Postscript file you would like to print

Then click on the Put button.

A small icon of a running dog will appear where you cursor is, indicating that the files are being transferred.

Close Fetch 3.0

Instructions for IBM

These are general instructions. If you can not get it to work, use the Macs in the WMX

If you are using an IBM, you will need to use an FTP program like Rapidfiler or WSFTP.

It is difficult to give exact instructions for each type of machine and set-up, but basically, you have to:

When Logging in, remember to select fraser.sfu.ca as your host, input your UNIX ID, your UNIX password, and you should not select any subdirectories. Many FTP programs have a default setting of a sub-directory called "pub". If this is the case, make sure you alte r it to look for no sub-directory

.

This involves selecting the postscript files on your disk or hard-drive and either dragging then into your UNIX drive, or highlighting them and then pressing an arrow button to transfer them across.

Instructions for Printing At Home

You do not have to transfer the files to UNIX and you do not have to log into UNIX and print your files from there. There is no easy way to print from a Mac to a postscrip print. In an IBM, go to a DOS prompt. Get into the directory containing the f ile. Type copy filename.ps lpt1 or copy filename.ps com1 or whatever the case may be. Remember, if you can't get it to work, don't bug the LAB TAs. LAB TAs are employed to help you with the SFU computers. If you are having troubles, go up to campus and print there.

Step 3. Print the Files from UNIX

Telnet into Fraser. You do this in the same way you open up Fraser when you want to check your email.

At the unix prompt, type ls -l

This will give you a list of all the files stored on your secetion of the fraser hard-drive. The Postscript file or files you transfered across in the last stage should be there. If they aren't there, you did something wron g and you need to repeat the whole process.

Print the pages by typeing mpage -4 filename.ps

This will print 4 pages of the document on both sides of each page printed.

Note: that filename.ps is the name of the postscript file that you are trying to print. If your file is called booze.ps, then you would type in mpage -4 booze.ps.

mpage -Pos -4 booze.ps will print 4 pages of the document on one side of each page printed.

mpage -2 booze.ps will print 2 pages of the document on both sides of each page printed.

mpage -Pos -2 booze.ps will print 2 pages of the document on one side of each page printed.

Step 4. And then when you get to the Printer

When you go to print out your document, you must remember that you have printed the document from UNIX and not from one of the labs. The university system makes a distinction between these two printer ques.

This means that you have to select "From UNIX" when you print the document.

Trouble Shooting

If it doesn't work do not bug the LAB TAs! You have done something wrong or the print server is down.

Step 1. Print the Files using your UNIX account

Telnet into Fraser. You do this in the same way you open up Fraser when you want to check your email.

At the unix prompt, you need to ask for a listing of your instructor's directory. For instance, Dr. Kamstra keeps his ps files in the directory
~kamstra/courses/buec333.
How did I find this out? I went to his homepage, found the ps file I wanted and then looked up to the section in Netscape, above the web page, where it shows the page's location. The location of the page and the location of the ps are one and the same.

To get a list of what is in Dr. Kamstra's directory, type the following (all on one command line):

ls -l ~kamstra/courses/buec333/ch*.ps

This will give you a list of all the chapter postscript files stored on the public section of my account on the fraser hard-drive.

Print the pages by typing the following;(all on one command line):

mpage -Pos -2 ~kamstra/courses/buec333/filename.ps

This will print 2 pages of the document on each page of the output, single-sided.

Note: that filename.ps is the name of the postscript file that you are trying to print. If the file you want to print is called ch9.ps, then you would type in mpage -2 ~kamstra/courses/buec333/ch9.ps

mpage -2 ~kamstra/courses/buec333/filename.ps will print 2 pages of the document on each page of the output, printing on both sides of each page.

mpage -4 ~kamstra/courses/buec333/filename.ps will print 4 pages of the document on each page of the output, printing on both sides of each page.

mpage -Pos -4 ~kamstra/courses/buec333/filename.ps will print 4 pages of the document on each page of the output, single-sided.

Step 2. Go to the Printer

When you go to print out your document, you must remember that you have printed the document from UNIX and not from one of the labs. The university system makes a distinction between these two printer queues. This means that you have to select "UNIX printouts" before printing the document.

Trouble Shooting

If it doesn't work, you have done something wrong or the print server is down.

Basically, folks, you are on your own here. If it doesn't work, do not bug the Lab TAs..

1. You Must have a Postscript Print and and IBM Computer
2. Go into Netscape
3. Find the file
4. Save it to disk
5. Goto the Dos Prompt
6. Copy the File to Lpt1