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From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Subject: Re: Help: WordPerfect printing to a PostScript file
Message-ID: <90Oct18.222136edt.21887@me.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: WordPerfect WP PostScript
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: 19 Oct 90 02:21:59 GMT

In article <3435@mcrware.UUCP> steves@mcrware.UUCP (Steve Simpson) writes:
>
>I am a former WordPerfect user and haven't been around it for a while.
>An associate is trying to write a document to a PostScript file so they
>can take the file to a service bureau for output.
>
>I have been unable to find any information on writing/printing a doc
>to a file.  Any suggestions (even the proper steps :-)) would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>==============================================
>"Homer" Simpson
>"Remember...As fas as anyone knows,
>we're a nice, normal family."
>Disclaimer: My words, not theirs.
>==============================================

Someone asked this before on the net and I replied it through e-mail. I think
I will waste a bit of network bandwidth for a change.

To print to a file in Word Perfect, you first have to use Shift-F7 to go
to the print menu. Then pick select printer and choose the laser printer of
your choice. Still under select printer, choose option 3 (edit) to edit
the driver. Another menu will show up to allow you to change the port,
font, size, etc. Pick the Port option. Instead of choosing LPT1, COM1, etc.,
chooose OTHER. This will allow you to type in the output filename. After
you are done, F7 to exit back to the top level. No whenever you print, the
output goes to the designated filename.

Unless you go through the above all the time, all output will be redirected
to that same file, which mean overwriting the previous ones. If you don't
feel like changing the above all the time and you need to keep the outputs,
better rename each one after it's being printed.

Yeah, so much for user friendliness!

Andy

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