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From: vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Direct PS files to a specific folder. How?
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Date: 29 Dec 89 16:14:24 GMT
References: <9704@cs.yale.edu>
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In article <9704@cs.yale.edu> sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu writes:
>When printing into a file (postscript file), I have to look for the
>generated postscript file in one of the three folders: the current
>folder, the application folder, and the system folder, depending on what
>application I am using. I wonder if there is a way to direct all
>postscript files to a specific folder, say, postscript.

Well, if you enable the "Disk File" checkbox in the LaserWriter dialog
(by mucking with the dialog via ResEdit), and enable Background
Printing, you will gain a number of benefits:

1) Clicking the Disk File checkbox to create a Postscript file is sure
easier than trying to holding down Command-F at the appropriate time.

2) The dumping of the Postscript files to disk can take place in the
background (not possible using the Command-F technique).

3) And lastly, but not leastly, all created Postscript files will be
placed in a folder called "Spool Folder" in the System Folder.  (As
you might expect, this is the same place where the spool files are
created when background printing is on.)

Mark Vita                              vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD               	..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY