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In article <1991Apr24.021628.26309@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque) writes:

   In article <1991Apr23.232031.13819@wam.umd.edu>
   collins@wam.umd.edu (Bernard F. Collins) writes:

   > The Macintosh Bible says that in order to direct a PostScript document to 
   > a file rather than to the printer one should click OK in the print 
   > dialog box then immediatly hold down Command-F.  I have yet to get this
   > to work in any app including MacDraw II, SuperPaint, Image etc.  What am
   > I doing wrong?

   You are doing nothing wrong. The above listed programs (MacDraw,
   SuperPaint, Image) do not generate PostScript output. These are all
   QuickDraw programs that generate output in a variety of non-PostScript
   formats (MacDraw- PICT2, SuperPaint- PICT,PICT2 and PAINT, Image-
   probably TIFF). If you were to do the above-mentioned operation in a
   program that uses PostScript (ie. PageMaker, FreeHand, Illustrator,
   etc.), you would indeed generate a PostScript file. However, the
   programs you mention don't use PostScript. No use of PostScript= No
   PostScript document= Command-F don't work.

Producing postscript does not depend on the program one is using because
it does not rely on the program to do this. Instead it is a feature of
the laser writer driver. So, any program capable of printing to laser
writer (no actual printer is required) can utilize this feature. I have
not verified wether or not theese particular programs would not produce
post script files, but if so, it is due to some obscure printer driver
usage.
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   Tero Nieminen                    Tampere University of Technology
   n67786@cc.tut.fi                 Tampere, Finland, Europe