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From: tempest@wet.UUCP (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer?
Keywords: mac postscript printing printers
Message-ID: <217@wet.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 17:42:49 GMT
References: <1105@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: tempest@wet.UUCP (Ken Lui)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <1105@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> sbchanin@sj.ate.slb.com (Steve Chanin) writes:
>I have been told that it is possible to get the normal LaserWriter print drivers
>to dump the postscript they generate to a disk file rather than send it out over
>Appletalk to the printer.  Supposedly all that is required is that the File...
>print menu item be selected while you are holding down some obscure key
>combination.
>

When you select LaserWriter, and do a Print..., hold down CMD-F
*immeditately* after you press the OK button.  It should create a
PostScript file in your root directory.  I haven't done this in
quite a while, so I don't remember what it writes exactly.  I
beliefe this CMD-F trick will write the code that comes from
LaserPrep also.  There's another CMD option that you can make and
it will exclude the stuff from LaserPrep; I believe it is
CMD-D--I'm not sure.

I hope this helped a little bit.

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