How do I print a PostScript file?
All you have to do is open the PS file from Word; select all;
and choose the Style PostScript from the style box on the upper left of the
window (if all you see is Normal, hold down the shift key before clicking on
the down area). Then print it. You can sorta read the raw PS code, but it is
not pleasant.
PS is just a text file with a specialized markup language. The moves just
described tell Word to pass the text directly to the printer without formatting
or doing any of the other WYSIWYG stuff it normally does. Your LaserWriter has
a computer in it that recognizes PS text as a program it can understand. Had
you just printed the file normally, Word would have transformed the PS text
into its own version of a PS program before printing it, which ends up looking
rather ugly. --Bill Covey
