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From: tyc@cbnewse.att.com (felix.a.lugo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: PrintApp ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.083232.12277@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 28 Apr 91 08:32:32 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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	Request for comments .... MULTIPLE-DOCUMENT PRINT APPLICATION!

	The NeXT requires a means of printing multiple documents created by
	different applications (i.e. Edit, WriteNow, FrameMaker, etc.) without
	having to launch the respective applications and "mousing" around
	through their interfaces!

	For example, say you want to print all the files in a directory.  Now,
	in the directory you have files from WriteNow, source code, and some
	tiff files.  It would be great if you could drag the icon of the
	directory into some application and have it print all the files in
	the directory filtering each one through it's respective (parent)
	application.

	Ever wonder why the Workspace application doesn't have a Print item
	in its menu?  A Print item in Workspace could be used to implement
	multiple-document printing.  In the File Viewer, you select the files
	you want to print and then click on the Print menu item.  What could
	be simpler and NeXTStep friendly?  Every application could provide a
	filter program (or interface module) that would be used by Workspace
	when it required to print a file created by an application.

	Well NeXT, how about providing this capability in your "next" release
	(pun intended 8^).  NeXT, you are listening, right?

	Any comments?  Let's start a formal discussion!  We could gather up
	ideas and forward them to the development staff at NeXT.

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Felix A. Lugo

E-Mail: (NeXTmail preferred)
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL	Felix_A_Lugo@ATT.COM
						coco@ihcoco.att.com
	AT&T NeXT User Group			nug@ihcoco.att.com
	T.Y.C. Software, Lisle, IL		coco@ihtyc.att.com
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