Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!paul
From: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Printing
Message-ID: <1096@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 16:47:37 GMT
Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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The standard printing loop for Mac programming consists of:
   propen;
   propendoc ...
   propenpage ...
    print the page ...
   prclosepage ...
   prclosedoc ...
   prpicfile ...
   prclose;

The thing which I don't quite understand is the placement of prpicfile.
As far as I can tell, printing on the mac gets spooled to disk until
the prclosedoc statement.  The prpicfile this prints the spooled file
on the printer.  It seems to me that for printing large documents, it
would be necessary to do a prclosedoc/prpicfile after every page, rather
than after the entire document has been processed as demonstrated in
Inside Mac.  My question is:  Should a well-written program do a prpicfile
for each page, or just one at the end?  Comments please.

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