yoshida@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Yoshida) (06/14/91)
Hi there fellow NeXT-Net-sters! I've been following this group for about 3-4 months now. Some great advice out there! I have a couple of short PS related questions that I haven't been able to find the answers to: Under 1.0, in YAP, you could print by including the PRINTERDEVICE and COPYPAGE commands. But under 2.0 - PRINTERDEVICE is *supposedly* replaced by MACHPORTDEVICE (or so the :-) *evil* docu writer tried to make me believe), i.e. I haven't been able to make it work. (Gosh, even yelling at the cube and holding my breath doesnt help! :-) ) So, aside from issuing the "lpr" command in the Shell, is there a better way to process my simple code as I'm testing - from within YAP? (Under 1.0 I just commented out out PRINTERDEVICE when I wanted the output on screen - then EXECUTE....) Also, I may be dumb, but how do I convince PS to allow me to include a TIFF file as an image. Is this possible? Thanks in advance! Paul. (yoshida@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (06/15/91)
In article <598@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> yoshida@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Yoshida) writes: >Under 1.0, in YAP, you could print by including the PRINTERDEVICE >and COPYPAGE commands. But under 2.0 - PRINTERDEVICE is *supposedly* >replaced by MACHPORTDEVICE Under pre-2.0 systems, the NeXT Laser Printer was supposed "directly" by the window server; it allocated a 1-bit-deep buffer which it would blast at the printer on receipt of a copypage or showpage operator. Now, the laser driver is part of npd, and as far as I know there's no way to get it to print something unless it initiates the request through "normal" means. >So, aside from issuing the "lpr" command in the Shell, is there a >better way to process my simple code as I'm testing - from within >YAP? I don't think so. >Also, I may be dumb, but how do I convince PS to allow me to include >a TIFF file as an image. Is this possible? Read your .tiff file into Icon and save it out as .eps -=EPS=-