Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!questor!asmith From: asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Will PageMaker print to a file? anser = yup Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 90 08:09:21 GMT Organization: Questor: FREE Worldwide News & e-Mail +1 604 681.0670 Lines: 40 > Someone in our office is learning to work with PageMaker on a PC at home. > He would like to prepare stuff at home, print to a file, put the file on > diskette, take the diskette to the office, load it on our SCO Xenix 2.3.2 > box, then send the print file to the TI microLaser. > > Can this be done, or should we stop wasting our time trying to figure out > how? Thanks for any suggestions. Assuming you are working with Windows 3... Configure, using the control panel, the printer that you will eventually be printing to and set it to "FILE" instead of an LPT or COM port. When you go to print, choose the printer on "FILE" from the printer choices in the "PRINT" dialogue box. Set your options and click on "OK". It will go to print, as per usual, but just before the data starts to flow, you will be prompted for a filename to print to. There are a number of considerations to take into account when doing this, most are not a problem if you are using PostScript (pardon my ignorance, is the TI microlaser PostScript?). Keep your Windows manual handy when you do it and you should be okay. cheers adam p.s. I am based in Vancouver. If you have any more questions, call me (look up "The Chameleon Papers" in the Yellow Pages or me in the White Pages) and I'll do what I can. ======================================================================== Adam Smith Genius - Graphic Artist - Bad Mood Guy The Chameleon Papers Vancouver, BC CANADA "Human beings are a great disappointment to me and it doesn't help one bit that I am one." (Deko 64) ========================================================================