Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Printing Example Code
Keywords: mac printing is a pain in the petute
Message-ID: <451@biar.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 89 04:16:12 GMT
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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THIS IS NOT A FLAME ABOUT APPLE - UNFORTUNATELY, I'M TOO NICE FOR THAT.
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Of all the mainfold agonies of Macintosh programming, IMHO the absolute
worst is getting your application to print.  The documentation in Inside
Macintosh is _abysmal_ in this regard.  If you put together all the
stuff in IM1-V, plus the technotes, plus trial and error, then you still
in most cases get something that works on alternate tuesdays during Lent.

Well, I'm sick of screwing around with the printer drivers.  And since
Apple has, in 4 or 5 years, yet to publish some decent example code
that has the minor virtue of working (to their everlasting shame!),
I will bestow 1lb of Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies upon the first
person who posts to the net source code in MPW Pascal that handles printing
properly.

This is to say, code that:

	* Prints on all Apple supported printers
	* Prints in all selectable resolution modes
	* Lets the user abort
	* Prints under Finder & Multifinder on ALL machines
	* is in the form of "it's all set up, insert your code to
	  image into this bitmap here".

In case you are wondering, 1lb of Mrs. Fields is the ISO standard bribe to
elicit example code.  As for why I'm offering it, my most recent stab at
printing code, which worked fine a few months ago and hasn't been changed,
now seems to get pissed off when it's asked to print to an Imagewriter in
other than draft mode.

Hoping that you are hungry, I remain:




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