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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: printing to a file
Message-ID: <7732@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 22:16:32 GMT
References: <9552@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <11540060@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <2564@cbdkc1.ATT.COM>
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In article <2564@cbdkc1.ATT.COM>, joe@cbdkc1.ATT.COM (Here comes the ...) writes:
> 
> >Use a product called GLUE!
> 
> What is Glue? What does it do? 

Glue is a product that traps printing calls, and places the image that a 
program is trying to print in a file that can be cut and pasted into other
programs.  I don't think it can do just text, which may be what some users
want.

It is fairly easy to write a printer driver which will trap text that is 
printed, and place it in a file if this is desired.  The November and 
December, 1987 issues of MacTutor contain an extremely-well-written
article (by me) showing how to print text from within an application to
the serial port.  In order to save the text in a file, just write the
output to the file, instead of ".AOut" or whatever.

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