Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!flowers From: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: printing to a file Message-ID: <9826@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 87 03:34:19 GMT References: <9552@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <11540060@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <2564@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> Sender: root@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (Margot Flowers) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 42 In article <2564@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> joe@cbdkc1.UUCP (Joseph T. Judge) writes: > >>Use a product called GLUE! > >What is Glue? What does it do? >I have seen some minimal discussion about this a little while ago. >Was confused. I asked the original question (how to capture printed reports in a file instead), so thought I'd followup. Every reply I got (thanks) suggested Glue, so apparently it is the only product capable of this that people know of. Glue provides two items: ImageSaver, which shows up as an output device under chooser, and Viewer, a program which can view, and make cuts out of, the result. It is very simple to use: simply select imagesaver under chooser, and the output goes there instead of the printer. It is advertised for "imagesharing", but in my case it is useful in a few ways: - capturing output from programs that insist on producing a report only on the printer - spooling output to be printed later when I'm at home without a printer - previewing output before actually printing it However, it is not quite what I wanted. The reports the application tries to print are saved as images, I'd like them to be text that I can cut and paste into a text editor document. (Yeah, I know the real problem is the obstinate application which refuses to put reports into files). Also, I haven't fully tested this yet, but the application seems to decide that ImageSaver isn't capable of graphics on bar charts and so constructs the bars out of letters (or perhaps this is viewer's interpretation of the thing). In addition, Viewer runs as an application. Since I don't have enough memory to run everything under multifinder yet, I need to quit the application to run Viewer to check the output. It would be nice if Viewer were provided as a DA instead of an application. Does anyone know of a DA which will view and maybe even cut PICT resources?