hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) (04/03/89)
Does anyone know how to make MacDrawII dump a drawing postscript
file? I've tried using clover-f just after I print the file, but
that didn't do it (I think that clover-f does something in the
arrange menu).
George Hartzell (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!{ncar,nbires}!boulder!hartzellgae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (04/03/89)
In article <7865@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes: >Does anyone know how to make MacDrawII dump a drawing postscript >file? I've tried using clover-f just after I print the file, but >that didn't do it (I think that clover-f does something in the >arrange menu). > After you click OK in the print dialog, WAIT for the box "Printing pages 1 to 10" to come up. THEN hold down F (or command-F) until "Creating Postscript file" comes up. You have to be fast, or you will get "Searching for LaserWriter". (I may have the text of these boxes slightly wrong). Apparently, the new MacDraw II 1.1 allows you to do some editing between the time you click "OK" and the time printing starts!! Surely this is a bug, not a feature. -- Gerald A. Edgar Department of Mathematics TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet The Ohio State University gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae
cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) (04/04/89)
In article <494@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu> gae@sphere.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) writes: ]In article <7865@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes: ]>Does anyone know how to make MacDrawII dump a drawing postscript ]>file? I've tried using clover-f just after I print the file, but ]>that didn't do it (I think that clover-f does something in the ]>arrange menu). ]> Is Apple going to make the clover-f or clover-k a standard feature? I don't know much about Macintosh, but based on what I see on screen, I noticed that all Macintosh software brings up the same dialog box as far as printing is involved. Looks to me that all the clover-f stuff comes from a toolkit. It would be nice if a "print to file" option is added to the dialog box. If this feature is made standard, and the file is saved in EPSF instead of the unportable LaserPrep code, it would set up an automatic graphic interchange among all Macintosh software. I had a PowerPoint document that contains an imported EPSF drawing from FreeHand. I needed to extract the drawing and import it into another application program. I used clover-f to capture the printing and edited the file to remove the PowerPoint stuff. Though I got the PS portion of the drawing, I couldn't recover the Preview image. The drawing becomes useless for being imported to another software. It would be nice if I can print my page into EPSF format and use it directly. -- .signature under construction ... {pyramid, osu-cis, uunet, killer}!daisy!cplai C.P. Lai cplai%daisy.UUCP@uunet.UU.NET cplai%daisy@killer.DALLAS.TX.USA Daisy Systems Corp, 700B Middlefield Road, Mtn View CA 94039. (415)960-6961
langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon) (04/04/89)
In article <494@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu>, gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes: > In article <7865@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes: > >Does anyone know how to make MacDrawII dump a drawing postscript > >file? I've tried... > > After you click OK in the print dialog, WAIT ... > ... THEN hold down F (or command-F) until ... > comes up. You have to be fast, ... > (I may have the text of these boxes slightly wrong). > > Apparently, the new MacDraw II 1.1 allows you to do some editing > between the time you click "OK" and the time printing starts!! Is this stuff in the Mac manuals?? I looked through a couple and found lots of baby food and blank page area space, but no tech data!! I paged all the way thru a couple of manuals, early MacDraw and another, without finding out how to write the postscript and get the required header file. I wouldn't have had to page thru if it had been in the contents or the index, but it wasn't, and I couldn't believe it wasn't in the manual. But then these were the first Mac manuals I went thru. And the last. The rest of who? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Langdon L-472 langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov Physics Department 14363%f@nmfecc.arpa Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 422-5444 UUCP: ..{qantel,ucdavis,pyramid,harvard,topaz}!lll-lcc!langdon