Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!wuarchive! uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!newsserver.sfu.ca!ucs.sfu.ca!Mike_Dustan Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: PS printing.. Message-ID: <1991Apr25.200415.5896@newsserver.sfu.ca> From: Mike_Dustan@ucs.sfu.ca (Mike Dustan) Date: 25 Apr 91 20:04:15 GMT Sender: news@newsserver.sfu.ca (News System Owner) References: <91112.144836GHGAQAY@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <2496@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1991Apr23.232031.13819@wam.umd.edu> Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 20 In article jarmo@ae.tut.fi (Jarmo Sorvari) writes: > ... to work in any app including MacDraw II, SuperPaint, Image etc. What am > I doing wrong? > > You must disable background printing in the Chooser dialog box. Then > Command-F will create a Postscript file, when printing. > ... This isn't strictly true. You can leave background printing on. PrintMonitor will pick it up when its turn comes and make a PostScript file out of it then. Oh, and perhaps it's time to state the obvious: the command-F trick only works if you're using the LaserWriter driver. Cheers Mike