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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: PrettyPrint service provider app, anyone?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 00:33:10 GMT
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Here's a project idea for those who are looking
for good NeXT programming projects.

There are numerous pretty print programs (for PS
printers) in command line versions.  But we need
something better which can receive Services request
from other apps like Edit or Terminal, and Librarian.
As you find out, when you print from these apps, they
just print with no page numbering, filename, etc.
(Or am I missing something?)

I would like a PrettyPrint service provider which can:

(1) receive printing service request via other apps'
	"Services" menu.

(2) pretty print either document (file), or selection.

(3) print plain ASCII or RTF.

(4) print filename (pathname), page number, sheet number,
	date last modified, date printed, line # for ASCII.

I would be happy to pay some amount if something
like this comes out as a shareware.

Anybody?

By the way, is there any examples of a service
provider in Demos, or at the archives?
I looked in /NextDeveloper/Examples, but didn't
see any.



Izumi Ohzawa             [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
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