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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Two printer questions...
Message-ID: <1115@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 12:09:03 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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I have two questions regarding printing.

1. I'm writing an application that should have Tall Adjusted turned on by
default if the imagewriter is chosen and have Larger Print Area turn on
by default if the laserwriter is chosen. These do not appear to be documented
fields in Inside Macintosh. What is the best way to go about setting these
attributes from within a program?

2. If I follow Inside Macintosh's printing guidelines (propen, propendoc,
propenpage,prclosepage,prclosedoc, and then de-spool if necessary),
I find that no printing is done until the de-spool is finally performed.
Effectively, the entire document is spooled to memory/disk and then
printed. Any other program that I test seems to print each page as it
is processed. Are all these programs breaking guidelines or is there a
way to force de-spooling to take place "legally" at any time during the
printing loop?

Any and all comments appreciated.


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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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