[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Inverted printing

omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) (09/05/89)

OK, so InvertRect doesn't work when you send it to a laserWriter.  Now,
what do *you* net wizards do when you want to Invert an area that the
user has specified as inverted when you send it out to laser?

The method I'm thinking of is to write the image in the printing grafport
out to an offscreen bitmap (or offscreen grafport, I haven't decided if I
need or want the whole grafport), invert it, then copybits it back in.

Tell me, America, is this what you do?  (previous reference to locality not
meant to discourage non-US posters)

Now, the caveat.  Obviously, you won't want to bother when sending to a
non-Postscript printer, so is there a method of determining if your
printer is going to interpret down to postscript, or if the imaging stays in
Quickdraw.

Thanks in advance for any comments/suggestions.

Owen


Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science

omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET