[comp.sys.apple] Postscript?

akc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Cox) (01/14/89)

Can someone help me with this.  Supposedly I can capture works into postscript
files on disk on my GS by holding down the command-f just like on the mac.
I have not been able to get this to work yet.  I'm using GS/OS and I would like
to be able to capture Multiscribe documents.  I hit command-f just after
selecting ok in the print window. Is that not correct?  I would think its the
same as the mac, but no luck on any programs yet.

Bruce


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scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (01/17/89)

From article <1487@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, by akc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Cox):
> Can someone help me with this.  Supposedly I can capture works into postscript
> files on disk on my GS by holding down the command-f just like on the mac.
> I have not been able to get this to work yet.  I'm using GS/OS and I would like
> to be able to capture Multiscribe documents.  I hit command-f just after
> selecting ok in the print window. Is that not correct?  I would think its the
> same as the mac, but no luck on any programs yet.
> 

I can't help you... but I'd like to know where you heard that for the GS. 
I've never seen any documentation to that effect & don't see how it would be
implemented without the application's cooperation.

-- Scott, late of StyleWare

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keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) (01/17/89)

In article <1487@mace.cc.purdue.edu> akc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Cox) writes:
>Can someone help me with this.  Supposedly I can capture works into postscript
>files on disk on my GS by holding down the command-f just like on the mac.
>I have not been able to get this to work yet.  I'm using GS/OS and I would like
>to be able to capture Multiscribe documents.  I hit command-f just after
>selecting ok in the print window. Is that not correct?  I would think its the
>same as the mac, but no luck on any programs yet.
>

This technique _should_ work. I think that you have to hold down command-F for
a while -- until the dialog bow says that it is spooling to the file.

Or is the key sequence command-K...I can never remember...



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prw@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul Wenker) (01/18/89)

In article <8054@claris.com> scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>From article <1487@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, by akc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Cox):
>> Can someone help me with this.  Supposedly I can capture works into postscript
>> files on disk on my GS by holding down the command-f just like on the mac.
>> I have not been able to get this to work yet.  I'm using GS/OS and I would like
>> to be able to capture Multiscribe documents.  I hit command-f just after
>> selecting ok in the print window. Is that not correct?  I would think its the
>> same as the mac, but no luck on any programs yet.

Pressing Command-F should send the PostScript to the file
*/SYSTEM/DRIVERS/POSTSCRIPT.GS.  If it doesn't seem to be working,
make sure you have version 2.1 or later of the LaserWriter driver.


>I can't help you... but I'd like to know where you heard that for the GS. 
>I've never seen any documentation to that effect & don't see how it would be
>implemented without the application's cooperation.

It's described in the System Disk 3.2 release notes.  Why would the
application need to be involved?  The driver is generating the
PostScript anyway.  It just saves it to disk instead of sending it to
the printer.


>-- Scott, late of StyleWare
>
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>(415) 960-4070           | Apple, the author, or anyone else living or dead.


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