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From: Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque)
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Subject: Re: PS printing..
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Date: 24 Apr 91 02:16:28 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.232031.13819@wam.umd.edu>
collins@wam.umd.edu (Bernard F. Collins) writes:

> The Macintosh Bible says that in order to direct a PostScript document to 
> a file rather than to the printer one should click OK in the print 
> dialog box then immediatly hold down Command-F.  I have yet to get this
> to work in any app including MacDraw II, SuperPaint, Image etc.  What am
> I doing wrong?

You are doing nothing wrong. The above listed programs (MacDraw,
SuperPaint, Image) do not generate PostScript output. These are all
QuickDraw programs that generate output in a variety of non-PostScript
formats (MacDraw- PICT2, SuperPaint- PICT,PICT2 and PAINT, Image-
probably TIFF). If you were to do the above-mentioned operation in a
program that uses PostScript (ie. PageMaker, FreeHand, Illustrator,
etc.), you would indeed generate a PostScript file. However, the
programs you mention don't use PostScript. No use of PostScript= No
PostScript document= Command-F don't work.

chuck

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