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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dumping Postscript to Disk rather than sending to printer?
Keywords: mac postscript printing printers
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Date: 7 Jul 89 17:12:20 GMT
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In article <SARREL.89Jul5140709@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>In article <2290@istop.ist.CO.UK> jh@ist.CO.UK (Jeremy Huxtable) writes:
>   I want to produce PostScript files on my Mac at home, where I have
>   all the software, and then take them to work to print out, where they
>   have the LaserWriter, but not the software. ...

>Well, when you print on your Mac at home, you not only have to install
>the laserwriter driver, but lie to you mac and use the chooser to say
>you have a laserwriter installed.  ...

Strictly speaking I don't think the suggestion below is a postscript
solution (I think it uses quickdraw), but it will work for the task
you have (printing laserwriter files at home):

One alternative is to use Glue (or SuperGlue, a more feature-ful
version of Glue).  [You couldn't tell from their ads that this is what
they're good for, but it is indeed the case.]  Glue provides another
printer driver, called ImageSaver, which you select in Chooser.  Then
when you print, after answering all the other questions, a dialog box
comes up for you to specify a file name of where the output should go.
It also provides an application (& DA with SuperGlue) with which you
can view the output on screen.  I've used SuperGlue for three
purposes:
        - producing laserwriter output at home (take the file in to
                work, print it there -- I've done my MacInTax output
                this way)
        - getting text output from programs that insist on printing
                only and refuse to produce output in files.
                (SuperViewer only will extract text from program output)
	- previewing output for proofreading purposes without having
		to print it out.  This is slow but is usually accurate
		enough.

Dumping postscript to files by cmd-f,k will work also, but Glue & SuperGlue
provide a nice framework in which to do this.

Margot Flowers
Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU
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