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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screen Dumping to a LaserWriter
Message-ID: <8219@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 23:41:42 GMT
References: <3956@husc6.harvard.edu> <174400099@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> <1112@cpocd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <1112@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>In article <174400099@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>	FKEY #4				FKEY #3
>>	-------				-------
>>	press cmd-shft-4		press cmd-shft-3
>>	pick up printout		start Paint program
>>					open screen dump
>>					choose print
>>					quit paint program
>>					throw away screen dump
>>					pick up printout
>
>Steve has a point, but he's distorted the FKEY #3 sequence to make it look
>worse than it needs to be.  There is an easier way, namely:
>
>					FKEY #3
>					-------
>					press cmd-shft-3
>					select screen dump
>					choose "Print" from menu
>					pick up printout
>
>I would consider the "throw away screen dump" step to be optional.  Some times
>I want to keep it around, some times I don't.  In the case where you *want*
>to keep it around, the FKEY #4 menu needs to include "press cmd-shift-3"!!!

In Steve's defense, I think you've made it easier than you think.

You assume two things:
             1. A person has bought some graphics program.
                (If they didn't buy one, then they're out of luck...)
             2. That they've bought MacPaint specifically.  (Otherwise you
                DO have to start it up, load it, print it)

Either way, the debate is silly.  A point is a point.  I think it's stupid
that Apple is doing away with the screen dump FKey when it'd take them 10
minutes to write a very good one that would make everyone happy.

Fortunately, some people go ahead and do it without waiting for Apple.
(No, I'm not Apple-Bashing, but I don't agree with their view of
obliterating FKey-4.)  Thanks to Rich Siegel (you know, the guy who's
always there to answer your Lightspeed Pascal/C questions...), he's
provided one which works beautifully on a LaserWriter, ImageWriter,
ImageWriter LQ, and I'm sure the new line of LaserWriters.  Even lets you
reduce the size of the screen dump...

Thanks again, Rich!

Ken


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