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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Printing Example Code
Keywords: mac printing is a pain in the petute
Message-ID: <28850@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 18:22:30 GMT
References: <451@biar.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <451@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>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.

If you realize that "drawing" to the printer is basically the same as dealing
with off-screen bitmaps, you should have no major problems.

The documentation on page 155 of IM2 is what I've used often for printing.
It covers all the basics of printing -- and deals with printing only certain
pages of the document.

IMHO, the print manager seems more difficult than it actually is.  I think
that the main problem is that you don't really get to see the output until
the printing loop is finished, which is the same as dealing with off-screen
bitmaps.


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