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From: aking@bbn.com (Allen King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Printing GEM Graphics
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Date: 8 Apr 91 21:44:51 GMT
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Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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   I've written a program which uses GEM windows, and I would like to
add printer capability to it. The simple thing of "print screen" lacks
the resolution I need. How do you change such a program to redirect
its output to the printer rather than the screen?

   I've scanned the developer's docs and Lasar C manual and nothing's
popped out at me. I suspect I should open a virtual workstation as a
printer class device rather or metafile than a CRT screen, and then
install GDOS and the appropriate printer driver. However calling
open_vwork with a class of printer=21 have not moved the the output of
my program from the screen, as I suspected it would.

   Thanks

			Allen King
			aking@pebbles.bbn.com