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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
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Reply-To: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (Margot Flowers)
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In article <2564@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> joe@cbdkc1.UUCP (Joseph T. Judge) writes:
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>>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?