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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Color Printing with Color QuickDraw?
Keywords: Color,QMS LaserPrinter, IWII
Message-ID: <4302@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Oct 88 01:29:16 GMT
References: <6610@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <6610@ut-emx.UUCP> jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes:

>	I'd like to be able to print in color when we get that
>eventual color laser printer (or slide maker), or when I 
>take my program to someone who's got one already. Of course 
>right now I'd like to print in color on the IWII.
>	So the question is: Can I use Color QuickDraw? No mention
>of this in IM V. Is is possible to use a CGrafPtr as a printer port?

The decision to use a CGrafPort is not yours,... it is the printer driver's.
On the MAC II, color print calls are transmogrified as necessary to work on
non-color GrafPorts.  I think that color calls MAY be changed to the appropriate
1-of-8 color for IW-IIs.  Certainly, using the ForeColor or BackColor calls
(which are B/W GrafPort calls) will work, even on color GrafPorts.  On a Mac II,
with a (non-color) GrafPort, using ForeColor or BackColor will place a colored
item in the port window (I use this trick to put colored messages into dialogs).
Color Device drivers usually return Color GrafPorts on PrOpenDoc.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)