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From: djd@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. Dasaro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Any MacDraw to Postscript converters out there?
Message-ID: <7510@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 25 Oct 90 17:43:21 GMT
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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I received mail with a solution that worked. Here's what I learned:

>From fed!m1pkd00@uunet.UU.NET Thu Oct 25 06:53:19 1990
>
>If you quickly depress k or f key right after you click <ok> on the print
>dialogue, then the program will print the file into a file called
>PostScript0 (left in the current or system folder [applications]) instead of
>sending the file to the printer. 

I tried both f and k and the files generated were identical.  I was using a
very small MacDraw document so the differences may only appear for larger
files.

I got another response but haven't tried it.  Here it is for information:

>From iuvax!melodian.cs.uiuc.edu!nelson Thu Oct 25 10:33:08 1990
>Hold down command-K when you print.  Or if macDraw doesn't like
>  that, resEdit your laserPrinterDriver to add the postScript Box.
>  (See macUser tips about 5 months back).


Thanks to those who replied,
-Danny