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Article #43304Re: Directing printer output
From: Werner Uhrig
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 08:33
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1989 08:33
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In article <1110@draken.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
> In article <4276@druhi.ATT.COM> suelh@druhi.ATT.COM (Sue Hendrix) writes:
> >I have a friend who would like to take printer output and direct it to a disk
> >file, primarily to save Infocom game scripts to an editable file.
> Easy way ? Nope. Apart from encapsulating the PostScript(TM) that should
> have gone to the LaserWriter, if you use the Standard Print Package (i.e.
> "Print" in most DTP, Word Processing and Graphic Design programs) there is
> no easy way to redirect data from the printer to disk.
maybe, you could use a print-spooler like DiskFit and check
out if the spooled data can be easily inspected.
then there is the pseudo-printer driver Preview, which allows
you to display printer output on the screen; maybe it can be
mucked to give you disk output that is useful.
there is something else, but I can't think of it at the moment ...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!milano!molokai!werner From: werner@molokai.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Directing printer output Summary: try a printer-spooler Message-ID: <2413@molokai.sw.mcc.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 08:33:45 GMT References: <4276@druhi.ATT.COM> <1110@draken.nada.kth.se> Distribution: comp Organization: MCC, Austin, TX Lines: 25