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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The Save button in PrintPanel
Message-ID: <12803@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 89 03:53:29 GMT
References: <130032@gore.com> <7596@zygot.ati.com>
Reply-To: ali@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
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In article <7596@zygot.ati.com> bruceh@zygot.ati.com (Bruce Henderson) writes:
>What happens is that when you say print in an application, the Display
>Postscript window server changes from sending postscript code to the
>screen, to sending it to a spool file that it then images on the local
>printer or passes over the network to a machine attached to a remote
>printer.  When you use save, the file name you enter is where all of
>this postscript ASCII stuff goes.  It is a neat way to look at the way
>that various apps print, including all of thier custom postscript
>definitions, because they must be downloaded in the text of the
>documnet as well!! [NeXT PS Hacker secret..]

To make life easier for looking at such PS files, you can make a symbolic
link to Yap from your own ~/Apps directory.  Then, after doing 
"Find Applications" or logging out and back in, Yap will become your
default PS previewer --- thus, when you hit "Preview" in the Print Panel
Yap will be launched in place of Preview, and the PS code will be displayed
in a Yap window.

Ali