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Article #956Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer?
From: Daniel Dee
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 21:08
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 21:08
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In article <1277@csdev.Challenger.COM> eric@csdev.Challenger.COM (Eric Huppertz) writes: > >Immediately after clicking the OK button in the print dialog, >press and hold command-F until it says 'creating postscript(r) >file.' This creates a text file which can then be downloaded >by any PS downloader. I can't seem to get this method to work. I have System Version 6.02 and I am using WriteNow and MacWrite when I did this. I also tried option-F too. Is there a better way to do this? Has anybody written a "printer" driver that prints to a file instead of a printer so that I can take the postscript output and print it on, say, a Sun with lpr. Thanks for any info. -- daniel (ddee@vicorp.uu.net)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!vicorp!daniel From: daniel@vicorp.UUCP (Daniel Dee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer? Keywords: mac postscript printing printers Message-ID: <5169@vicorp.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 89 21:08:02 GMT References: <1105@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> <1277@csdev.Challenger.COM> Reply-To: daniel@sunra.UUCP (Daniel Dee) Distribution: usa Organization: V. I. Corporation, Amherst, Massachusetts Lines: 15