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From: jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Getting Postscript dump
Keywords: macdraw postscript
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Date: 28 Sep 89 16:36:40 GMT
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Reply-To: jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
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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



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