Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!cc.tut.fi!cc.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@cc.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: PS printing.. Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 15:04:13 GMT References: <91112.144836GHGAQAY@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <2496@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1991Apr23.232031.13819@wam.umd.edu> <1991Apr24.021628.26309@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Sender: n67786@cc.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu's message of 24 Apr 91 02:16:28 GMT In article <1991Apr24.021628.26309@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque) writes: 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. Producing postscript does not depend on the program one is using because it does not rely on the program to do this. Instead it is a feature of the laser writer driver. So, any program capable of printing to laser writer (no actual printer is required) can utilize this feature. I have not verified wether or not theese particular programs would not produce post script files, but if so, it is due to some obscure printer driver usage. -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe