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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: new PostScript Printer Driver for Macintosh from Adobe Systems
Keywords: postscript,macintosh,EPS
Message-ID: <221@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 24 Jul 90 19:58:08 GMT
References: <4394@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Skyline Press, Woodside CA
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In article <4394@adobe.UUCP> macdriver@adobe.com writes:
>
>Adobe wants input from users, developers, and service bureaus on features and
>capabilities which you want to see in the driver.

>In addition, followups to this newsgroup will be read with interest by the
>driver team.

I would like to be able to get back everything that is returned to the
host by the printer, like the exact text of error messages and any other
random text that might be sent back.  Ideally, it should be possible to
have this information directed to a file; it could use a single file and
over-write it each time as a default, and perhaps allow me to specify
a particular file by invoking an option.  That would be extremely valuable.

I would also like to see the driver handle situations where you want to
prepend the contents of a file before every job that gets printed, so
you could create custom "DRAFT" notices, cut marks, CLASSIFIED notices,
or whatever.  I imagine users would want to be able to set it up so a
particular file always gets used but have the ability to ask for a special
one if they want to.

How 'bout putting the downloadable printer fonts in a sub-directory of
the System folder, so they don't swamp that folder?  Maybe this is
already taken care of (I'm a bit of a Mac peasant these days with my
Macintosh Plus....)

Sounds great, other than that.  Especially the notion of producing truly
portable code from the printer driver.  That will be an incredible
feature.

Question:  you mentioned that the driver will be able to produce EPS
files.  Does that mean they'll have the preview component, too?  If not,
you should consider doing so, since you already have the QuickDraw
commands if you're the printer driver.

Thanks,
-- 
 Glenn Reid				PostScript/NeXT consultant
 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us		Independent Software Developer
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