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From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: don't know how to capture printer output as text file
Message-ID: <1816@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 30 Sep 89 00:51:18 GMT
References: <7647@max.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <7647@max.u.washington.edu> wcn@max.u.washington.edu (W C Newell Jr)
 writes:

>Does a pseudo-driver exist that I might be able to toss into my
>System folder and then choose, which would trap printer output and make a byte-
>stream file?  

   One way to do it would be to print the output using SuperGlue (from
   Solutions International, a Vermont company) as a selected printer device.
   Unless your appplication does something **really stupid** such an Image-
   Saved file should contain only pure QuickDraw.  You could then open this
   file w/ the SuperViewer APPL (or the SuperViewer DA) and do another
  'Save as text'.

   Another method would be to save the file straight in Scrapbook file
   format and open it using the SmartScrap DA (also from the same folks).
   This method might not work with your application, though.  Ordinary
   text pasted into SmartScrap DA can be copied in portions, not in blocks.

   Still another - capture the postscript file (it's all TEXT, anyway)
   and strip the unnecessary codes via a macro in either QUED/M, Nisus
   or even Vantage DA text-processor.


>I've also asked several local Mac gurus, and those I trust all say
>this is the best place to ask.

   Who said they were gurus?   ;-)

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