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PPD Question

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From: Juergen May
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:13
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Hi there!

I have a question about PPDs and how they work...

I'm wondering if it's possible to adapt a PPD to do the following... When I select my printer (AGFA AccuSet 800) and go to print (from QuarkXPress), depending on the PPD I choose I'd like to determine whether the In-RIP Separations feature is selected or not. Does that make sense!?

You see, what I'd like to see in my list of PPDs in Quark is 'AccuSet' and 'AccuSet with In-RIP Seps', so that I can choose on-the-fly whichever is appropriate for the particular job I happen to be outputting.

Is this at all possible?

I've tinkered with the existing PPD and the only way I can get this to work is by creating two identical printers and then applying the two different PPDs when setting them up in the Chooser. I'd rather just have one printer and choose the relevant PPD.

Hope I don't sound too ignorant! This is an area which I haven't needed to do much work in before so I'm rather unsure of what can/can't be done.

Thanks for any advice you may have :-)

Juerg
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