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Re: PS printing..

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From: Mike Dustan
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 20:04
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In article <JARMO.91Apr24183201@ahma.ae.tut.fi> jarmo@ae.tut.fi (Jarmo 
Sorvari) writes:
>  ... to work in any app including MacDraw II, SuperPaint, Image etc.  
What am
>    I doing wrong?
> 
> You must disable background printing in the Chooser dialog box.  Then
> Command-F will create a Postscript file, when printing.
> ...

This isn't strictly true. You can leave background printing on. 
PrintMonitor will pick it up when its turn comes and make a PostScript 
file out of it then.

Oh, and perhaps it's time to state the obvious: the command-F trick only 
works if you're using the LaserWriter driver.

Cheers

Mike
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