ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet (02/03/90)
For everyone out there who has ever held down the "F" or "K" key to create a PostScript file I think that this little bit of information should be rather useful. If you go into the LaserWriter driver with ResEdit and look at STR ID = -8191, you will find the word "PostScript". This, as everyone who's ever done this knows, is the name of the file that gets created when you hold down F key after clicking OK in the LaserWriter print dialog box. (Plus a 0, 1, 2, etc. depending on if one already exists in the current folder) The biggest problem, of course, has been where to find this mysterious file called "PostScript0". It's usually in the folder with the application, but sometimes in the System folder-it all depends on the last accessed folder. Well, here's how you change it: Borrowing from Big Blue's idea of pathnames, all you have to do is put in the desired pathname in STR -8191, and the output file will be anywhere you want it. All you do is separate the levels with colons. So, if you have a folder called FOLDER2 in a folder called FOLDER1 on your disk called HARD DISK, just put HARD DISK:FOLDER1:FOLDER2:POSTSCRIPT in theStr of STR -8191 in the LaserWriter and volia, your file PostScript0 (or, for that matter you can change it to anything you want) will be sitting in FOLDER2. Hope this helps clean things up for people. Kevin Bolduan '91 Amherst College KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST Bitnet Address