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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing Printer Drivers
Message-ID: <428@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 23 Jun 89 15:29:45 GMT
References: <kYbmHhy00WB2IUnVEU@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <kYbmHhy00WB2IUnVEU@andrew.cmu.edu> at15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew Lewis Tepper) writes:
>I'm considering writing a printer driver for the Macintosh that will appear
>in the Chooser menu, and will display each page onscreen rather than send
>it to an actual printer. I have been unable to locate any information on
>the subject of printer drivers. Does anyone out there have specifics?

Don't do it.  It will break under 7.0.  

The question is then how to to do it under 7.0.  First, it will be
technically much easier then.  Second, it might be bureaucratically
(never could spell that word) more difficult.  

Apple will be licensing the "Tackle Box" needed to do it, but it looks
like they will only be targeting it for commercial developers, and so
might put a terrible price on it.  (I know they do want, as part of
the deal, one of your first born.  That is, they want a copy of the
output device you are driving.)

Kent Borg
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