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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Need better way to produce PostScript files
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Date: 30 May 90 14:24:16 GMT
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	We're starting to gear up to produce PS files to be downloaded to a
Linotype service bureau.  I did the ResEdit hack to my LaserPrinter driver
to add a "print to disk file" checkbox, but I'm looking for something even
better.  The problem with the checkbox is you end up with a file called
PostScript0 in your PrintMonitor spool folder.  What I would really like is
to end up with a file with some useful name (original-document-name.ps, for
example) in the current folder.  Does anybody know a way to make that
happen?

	I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but this is going to be
used by "just plain folks" and every step that can be eliminated makes it
that much more likely that people will be able to deal with it without
having to be walked through each time.  I have already decided to not bother
getting people to compress their files with StuffIt before downloading
because that adds another couple of un-needed steps.  Every step I can knock
off is a win.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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