Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Printing Example Code
Keywords: mac printing is a pain in the petute
Message-ID: <457@biar.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 04:22:47 GMT
References: <451@biar.UUCP> <28850@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <28850@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
>If you realize that "drawing" to the printer is basically the same as dealing
>with off-screen bitmaps, you should have no major problems.

Of course I realize this.  What I am _bitching_ about is that the doco in IM
is abysmal.  And there are few examples, and none of them current with the
many changes and patches.  I had a _prerelease_ Mac and programmed the
sucker on a Lisa; I thought printing was a pain in the a** then and I still
do.

Several people have sent me nice shells that pointed out a couple of
gotchas to me that 1) don't matter 99% of the time, but do kill you
every so often and 2) a set of basic sample sources from Apple would
have alleviated.  Sigh.