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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Directing printer output
Message-ID: <956@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 5 Jun 89 21:27:15 GMT
References: <4276@druhi.ATT.COM> <1110@draken.nada.kth.se> <2413@molokai.sw.mcc.com>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In article <1110@draken.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
> In article <4276@druhi.ATT.COM> suelh@druhi.ATT.COM (Sue Hendrix) writes:
> >I have a friend who would like to take printer output and direct it to a disk
> >file, primarily to save Infocom game scripts to an editable file. 
> Easy way ? Nope. Apart from encapsulating the PostScript(TM) that should
> have gone to the LaserWriter, if you use the Standard Print Package (i.e.
> "Print" in most DTP, Word Processing and Graphic Design programs) there is
> no easy way to redirect data from the printer to disk.
< 
Except to use a printer driver which saves to disk, instead of printing.

Glue (and its successor SuperGlue) from Solutions,Inc. does exactly that.
You can even save as text directly.

Standard (Dis)claimer apply.
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