Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!uunet!mcsun!ukc!educ-isis!tejtemw From: tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Need better way to produce PostScript files Message-ID: <1990May31.183614.7268@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> Date: 31 May 90 18:36:14 GMT References: <1990May30.142416.27725@phri.nyu.edu> Reply-To: tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) Organization: Institute of Education University of London Lines: 26 In article <1990May30.142416.27725@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > > 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? In the info-mac archives (ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu, logname anonymous, password anything), get the file info-mac/util/laser-fix-10.hqx. The spelling may be slightly different. This init will not only put a "print to disk file" checkbox in your Laserwriter Print dialog, but it will give you a standard file-saving dialog so that you can name and locate the postcript file as you like. Disclaimer: I recently downloaded this init, and haven't tried it. This is what the documentation file claims it does, and there's no particular reason to doubt the author. -- Earl M. Williams ?8^) "No matter where you go, there you are." Inst. of Education, U. of London -Buckaroo Banzai INTERNET/JANET: tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk "When in doubt, lay it out." BITNET: tejtemw%@ukacrl.bitnet -Captain Ultimate [Frisbee]