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From: funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Capture the PostScript output on a macintosh
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Date: 23 Dec 88 03:04:58 GMT
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+-In article <2216@daisy.UUCP>, cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) wrote:-
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|
| I remember sometimes ago, someone mentioned a Macintosh trick to redirect 
| the printing to a file.  I did not save that article.  Now, I like to
| capture a PostScript output from a Macintosh application.  Can someone
| tell me how to do it?  
| 
| Thank you in advance.
|
| {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,seismo!ihnp4,ucbvax!hpda}!nsc!daisy!cplai    C.P. Lai
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  This particular trick is an Apple developer secret.  The gentleman who told
me about this said it was used for debugging the printer driver, and was NOT
supported... in other words, it could go away in the next release (or maybe
it already has; I haven't used it for months).
  The trick is, just after you've clicked on "OK" to print (from the system
Printer window), type Option-D.  (The Option key is that funny looking key with
the ()_()
     |_|
    () () on it.)  It'll be sent to a file in the current folder, the name of
which eludes me (I think it resembles POSTSCRIPT.001 or something).

  Personally, I think that it SHOULD be supported, and should be documented.
Of course, I don't have much influence in this area, nor do I use a Mac...

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