Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!polyslo!dorourke From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Printing color (gray scale) to a LaserWriter Message-ID: <13549@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 89 01:27:01 GMT References: <1989Aug15.001707.24483@geology.wisc.edu> Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) Distribution: na Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 27 jct@paz.UUCP (John C. Terranova) writes: >I have very little (read: NIL) time to do it but yet must. Does anybody >know how to print in gray scale on the LaserWriter? Right now I just >CopyBits my pix map to the printer and get straight black and white. >No good! I play with the color map so I can also get gray scale on the >screen, but how do I get it to the printer?!? If you mean an Apple LaserWriter then all I can think of is the following solutions: There maybe others, but I can't think of them. To get gray scale I think you'll have to go to generating the postscript code yourself. That mean's you'll have to learn postscript and translate your pixmap to postscript along with the gray-scale directions in the postscript program. Yucky I know, but I can't think of any other way. You might try exporting your graphics to an existing program that does gray scale. >Thanks much. sorry, but this isn't much help, but I hope you find some direction from it. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | God doesn't know, he would have never designed it like that in the first | |_ place. ____________________________________________________________________|