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From: mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple: Please fix Postscript on mac
Message-ID: <7480@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 90 18:40:21 GMT
References: <70500007@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <71200007@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <71200007@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Ideally, this would all happen seamlessly.  Can Apple provide a way
>for the laserwriter driver to hand off its output to another running
>program (or my own custom-written login / file transfer / logout
>software?)
>
>I hope Apple gets this stuff right.

    Giving the user no opportunity to name and place the postscript file is a
step back, not a step forward, because it does not allow for the possibility
that the user wants to do something like edit the postscript.

  If you will be running on a 7.0a9 system, why not just insist that if the
user wants to have the thing printed that it be put in a "Print Me" folder
on the disk or something.

  Then, when they run Red Ryder your script can upload everything in the
"Print Me" folder.

  That way, if they are doing anything with the postscript other than
printing it on your mainframe, they can give it a meaningful name and put it
somewhere useful.

-- Mark Wilkins
-- 
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