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From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
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Subject: Re: Page Rectangles
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Date: 12 Oct 90 02:18:14 GMT
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In article <10608.2713216d@amherst.bitnet> djvelleman@amherst.bitnet writes:
>In article <52630@brunix.UUCP>, omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
>> Also, please don't get annoyed at all the printing questions.  Your
>> company only recently (with the "Learning to Drive" article) let the
>> cat out of the bag with regard to disclosing information on printing.
>> 
>> Years of non-support have created much legend and lore about the
>> intricacies of printing, so it's natural that people will be confused
>> as to what is correct information and what is not.
>
>  For the benefit of those of us who are just learning to print:  What is this
>article "Learning to Drive"?  Where is it?  Should I read it if I'm trying to
>learn to implement printing?  Is there anything else I should be reading,
>other than IM?
>  Thanks.
>   Dan Velleman
>   Math Dept.
>   Amherst College

Learning to Drive was issued by Apple on one of the Developer CD Roms.  You
don't really need it to implement printing (in fact it might be dangerous
:-)).

What I found the most helpful was technote #161 - When to call PROpen
and PRClose.  Just copy that code into your app, call your printing
quickdraw calls from the DrawStuff routine, and voila, instant printing.

To paraphrase Bill Nye, who once said "Wagner's music is better than it
sounds:"  Macintosh printing is a lot easier than Inside Mac looks.

-Owen

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