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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... [message #3639 is a reply to message #3636]

Wed, 08 February 1995 20:26

mhaffner
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Registered: February 1995

Junior Member

In article <kryan-0802952136090001@dcc00195.slip.digex.net>,
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...

Try out the small and simple utility "DropPS". You simply configure it for
a printer on your network and drop any PostScript files on it to send them
to that printer. You can find it at any info-mac mirror site in the
"Print" directory such as:

< ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/Print/drop-ps-113.hq x>

or alternatively from the Bare Bones Software ftp site:

<ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbsw/drop-ps-113.hqx>

Hope this helps!

mh
--
Matt Haffner --==========-- mhaffner@fosters.astro.wisc.edu
Dept. of Astonomy --==========-- University of Wisconsin, Madison

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