Until someone writes a Laserwriter driver for the Mac that doesn't
require a network connection, Shapeshifter users will have trouble
sending Postscript files to the printer.  You can do it by printing the
file to disk, transferring it to the Amiga and copying it to the
parallel port where the printer lives. This is a bit tedious.

I asked Didier Levet to write an icon driven script that simplifies the
process. (Didier is the guy who wrote P96_TurboSVD, the best
Shapeshifter video driver for Picasso.)

This little iconx dos script makes it possible to move those Postscript
files to your printer in just a couple of mouse clicks.

To use MacPrint, make sure you have selected a late version of Mac's
Laserwriter 8 printer driver in the Chooser.  When you print from
within a program, you get a requester that will allow you to select the
option 'To File.'  Save the file in a folder called ToPrinter on the
Mac's boot disk.

Next, double click on the (Amiga) MacPrint icon. This will
automatically start the MacHandler which allows the Amiga to read the
Mac disk.  Then it brings up a standard file requester displaying the
contents of Mac:ToPrinter.  Double click on the file you wish to print
and that file is on its way to the printer. 

Remember, this assumes you have a Postscript printer connected to your
parallel port.

For MacPrint to run MacHandler, you must make sure the MacHandler file
is in DEVS:DOSDrivers/MAC.  If you wish to stash this file somewhere
else, please use a script editor to enter the correct path in MacPrint.
 Directions for this are in the script. 

If you find this little program useful, please let me know, and I will
thank Didier for all of us.  

If you know someone who can modify Mac's Laserwriter8 printer driver to
accept direction to the Amiga's parallel port, that would be even
better.

Richard Starr

starrfarr@valley.net