Mike O'Connor wrote:
> madodel wrote:
>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> For years I have just used the Apple LaserWriter Plus PS driver v42_2
>>> for my Apple LW Select 310 (mono - 300 dpi). Reading your message
>>> prompted me to actually look for a specific PPD file to import - as it's
>>> not listed in the PSCRIPT.DRV. Back in 1993, I obtained the full PS
>>> package direct from Adobe, but had forgotten I had it! :-[
>>> I downloaded both from Adobe and another URL, PPD files for the
>>> LaserWriter-Select 310 v52.5l.
>>> One was obviously for Windows as it had lines terminated by
0x0d,0x0ahttp://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/AddPpdFiles
>>> and was a few hundred bytes larger than the other which was terminated
>>> with just 0x0a - Mac style.
>>>
>>> I ran the instpdr and everything in the window indicated it had updated
>>> pscript.drv OK.
>>> However attempting to either modify the current setup or install another
>>> printer resulted in the Select 310 v52.51 not showing up in the
>>> selection list.
>>>
>>> I had backed up a copy of pscript.drv - which existed identically under
>>> both \ecs and \os2 trees - and comparing the files after using instprd
>>> resulted in the following;
>>>
>> It doesn't modify the actual pscript.drv it creates a file called
>> auxprint.pak and updates EAs that are read when installing the driver to
>> add additional printers to the list to select from.
>>
>> If you have an eComStation license, logon at ecomstation.com, go to the
>> BetaZone, filter on "Selective install Tools" and
download Alex Taylor's
>> instpdr  (instpdr_20070614.zip).  This is a GUI tool to add new printers to
>> the PostScript driver that have PPDs.  It makes the process much simpler.
>>
>> Mark
> Hi Mark, Andy,
>
> In response to Andy's posting, just as your reply arrived, I was just
> about to post the following:
>
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> That was the only change that I noticed!
>>
>> Looking more carefully at that directory I now notice the last write
>> time for auxprint.pak is from around that time I first made the
>> attempts and looking inside it there's definitely a relevant entry at
>> the beginning of the file which commences "IBM DDPAK
V1.0", followed
>> by nulls from offset 0000000e to 0000002b, then 4 bytes containing
>> entries of 0x01,0x00,0x01,0x00, followed by more nulls at offset
>> 00000030-00000033, followed by "LaserWriter-Select 310 v52_5",
>> followed by mainly binary data and finishing up with the list of
>> standard fonts.
> the size of that auxprint.pak is 1,916 bytes, the PPD file was 11,489 bytes.
>
> I had already used Alex Taylor's instpdr.exe, from Betazone,
"installed"
> as per included directions.
>
> Will try again selecting from drivers other than those included with
> eComStation, and advise outcome.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
I had forgotten this, but I wrote up an article on how to convert the 
PPD files.  It briefly mentions the use of Alex's tool but mostly is a 
how-to on manual conversion.  Alex's tool should "just work" so I 
didn't see a lot of purpose in describing it, however, if you do have 
problems with it then the instructions for manual conversion explain 
what the tool is doing and give the information to see what might be 
going wrong.
Andy

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