Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls61!bnr.ca!bschmidt
From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt (BNR))
Subject: Re: generic postscript
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.153132.10576@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Sender: usenet@bwdls61.bnr.ca (Use Net)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References: <9102210325.AA15366@cs.umn.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 1991 15:31:32 GMT

In article <9102210325.AA15366@cs.umn.edu> peiffer@CS.UMN.EDU ("Tim 
Peiffer ", The Net Guy) writes:
> For the benefit of the mailing list:
> Turn background printing off via chooser/laserwriter dialog box.
> Print your document in the normal method, except when getting to the
> final [OK], follow it immediately with <option> f/k sequence.

> Printing via method 1 is a little ugly, but it is useful if you are
> using quickdraw to postscript macros (Mac Draw/Paint...) as part your 
> postscript package.  

Tim, agree that that the command-F method of producing postscript files is 
"a little ugly".  

Try this one instead:
Fire up ResEdit and make visible the "Disk Copy" checkbox that's normally 
hidden in the standard LaserWriter print dialog.  Don't want to play with 
ResEdit?  No problem!  Run a copy of D.G. Gilbert's "MyPageSetup 1.3" and 
select OK for both dialog boxes.  You'll then have a new check box, marked
Disk Copy, on the standard LaserWriter print dialog.

From then on:
Whenever you want a PostScript file, just Select Print from whatever 
application you are in and when the standard LaserWriter dialog comes up 
check the "Disk Copy" checkbox.  That's it!

No need to turn background printing.  And no need to hunt all over the 
Postscript files.  They'll be in:  System  Folder/Spool Folder.  

I use the v5.2 laserwriter drivers and this works well.  I suspect a bit 
of poking around would be needed for the v6.x drivers.

regards,

Ben Schmidt     Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.   Ph: (613) 763-3906
Information     P.O. Box 3511, Station C       FAX:(613) 763-3283
Technology      Ottawa Canada K1Y 4H7          bschmidt@bnr.ca 
