jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey) (09/28/89)
Hello.. I'm just starting in programming with the Macintosh, and I need a bit of help... What I'm trying to do is not really that programming intensive. What I want to do is get the postscript output from a MacDraw II document.. we're using the TOPS spooler, which hides the spool files.. I tried using the Mac sys 6.0 background printing function, and snatching a copy of the spooled file itself, but although I was able to do it, the file is not in postscript, but appears to be compressed in some manner. The ideal solution, it would seem, is a pseudo-printer driver that looks like a laserwriter to the system, but instead of dumping the postscript to the laserwriter, it dumps it to an ascii file. Alternatively, if there is some way to redirect the AppleTalk transmissions to another computer... ? Any comments or suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Jonathan // /\ /\/\ | Jonathan Abbey - jonabbey@doc.cc.utexas.edu - (512) 926-5934 \X/ / \ / \ | Wanted: Programmers interested in 3d graphics/modem games.
siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (09/29/89)
In article <18916@ut-emx.UUCP> jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey) writes: >What I'm trying to do is not really that programming intensive. What I want >to do is get the postscript output from a MacDraw II document.. we're using >the TOPS spooler, which hides the spool files.. I tried using the Mac sys 6.0 If you turn of "Print Spooled Output While I Work", the PostScript files will stay around until you delete them; they are invisible files, stored at the root level, and the name of each file is PostScript.XXXXXXXX, where the XXX's are the hex representation of the date and time each file was spooled. Using DiskTools or ResEdit, you can change the attributes, type, and creator so that the files can be opened by a text editor. R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "There is no personal problem which cannot be solved by sufficient application of high explosives." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~