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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Wanted: "NULL" printer driver
Message-ID: <1990Jan24.002353.19427@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 24 Jan 90 00:23:53 GMT
References: <1990Jan23.034921.569@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1990Jan23.034921.569@smsc.sony.com> by dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott):
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| Does anyone know of a way to fake the system into appearing like
| it has a printer without actually having one?  I can't just install
| a driver and choose it, since it takes over my printer port, which
| is where my modem is (my MIDI interface is on the modem port).
+---------------

Look around for a Chooser document called "Preview".  It's a screen previewer
which is implemented as a "printer" (i.e. select it in Chooser, then when you
print something the Preview window pops up with the "printed" document in it).

++Brandon
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