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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer?
Keywords: mac postscript printing printers
Message-ID: <1308@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 17:47:13 GMT
References: <1105@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> <1277@csdev.Challenger.COM> <5169@vicorp.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <5169@vicorp.UUCP> daniel@sunra.UUCP (Daniel Dee) writes:
>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)

Make sure you have background printing turned off.  You also have only
about two seconds to press CMD-F once you've clicked "OK", and you
should hold the keys down until you see the "Creating PostScript file"
message.

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