werner@molokai.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) (06/01/89)
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. maybe, you could use a print-spooler like DiskFit and check out if the spooled data can be easily inspected. then there is the pseudo-printer driver Preview, which allows you to display printer output on the screen; maybe it can be mucked to give you disk output that is useful. there is something else, but I can't think of it at the moment ... -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: uhrig@mcc.com (if unavailable: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu) UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!milano!werner ALTERNATIVE: werner@astro.as.utexas.edu OR werner@utastro.UUCP
urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) (06/06/89)
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. -- Matthias Urlichs -- Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- FRG urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de -- ++49+721-621127@PTT