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Re: Printers... [message #3636]

Thu, 09 February 1995 03:51

Chris Jacobsen
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Registered: December 1994

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kryan@access.digex.com (Kevin W. Ryan) wrote:
> Second question regarding IDL: it's easy to dump an image or a window
> to a Postscript file on the Mac, but how does one get it to the printer? I
> don't want my users to have to run the LaserWriter Utility to print
> everything...
>
> I haven't checked the PC version on this yet - can print output there
> be directly sent to printers?

On windows, you can do:
IDL> $ copy file.ps prn:

or within the IDL routine you can do something like
system, 'copy file.ps prn:'

Of course you can do similar things in unix and VMS. I
don't know anything about the Mac world, though.

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		Re: Printers... By: Chris Jacobsen on Thu, 09 February 1995 03:51
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