TI Print Spooler

NOTE: The print spooler supplied by Texas Instruments supports only the Windows environment. Users of Macintosh, UNIX and other operating systems can obtain free uncompression utilities from Info-ZIP. Also see the Postscript Document FAQ.

The following three steps describe the procedure Windows users must perform before printing Semiconductor technical documents in compressed postscript.

NOTE: Texas Instruments supplies the TINETSPL print spooler at no charge as a convenience to our customers. Texas Instruments Incorporated does not provide any technical support or warranty for this utility.

1) Obtain TI Print Spooler for MS Windows

Hold down the SHIFT key and click on the link below:
Download TI Print Spooler to your local hard drive.
From Windows File Manager, double-click on TINET001.EXE to unzip the files to C:\TINETSPL\.

2) Prepare your browser

The way you configure the browser depends on whether you are using NCSA Mosaic, Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic or Netscape Navigator.

If you are using NCSA Mosaic 2.0 Final Beta or higher:

1. Choose Preferences from Mosaic's Options menu and select the Viewers option.

2. Enter the following information:

	Associate Mime Type:	application/tinetspl
	Description (Optional):	Compressed Postscript file
	Extensions:		.psz, .PSZ
	Application:		C:\tinetspl\tinetspl.exe

If you are using Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic 2.0:

1. Choose Helpers from the Mosaic Edit menu. Select Add.

2. Enter the following information:

	Description (Optional): Postscript documents
	Associate Mime Type:	application/tinetspl
	Suffixes:		.psz, .PSZ	
	Encoding:		binary
	Helper Application:	C:\tinetspl\tinetspl.exe
	Service Name:		TINETSPL

If you are using Netscape Navigator 1.1 or higher:

1. Choose Preferences from the Netscape Options menu.

2. Select Helper Applications from the scrollable list and then click on New Type to create a new helper type.

3. Enter the following information:

	Mime Type:		application
	MIME Subtype:		tinetspl
	Extensions:		.psz, .PSZ
	Application:		C:\tinetspl\tinetspl.exe

3) TINETSPL Usage

The use of TINETSPL becomes an automated tool for extracting and printing compressed postscript documents after the utility is properly installed on your system. The utility can be invoked from within the browser by using two methods:

Web Browser Usage

Once a document is located using the web search utilties, the TINETSPL program is automatically started by selecting a hypertext link of "filename.psz". Once your browser downloads the file, TINETSPL shows the postscript files in the compressed archive. Click on the Print button and the document is automatically uncompressed and spooled to your postscript printer.