On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 jbv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, but there's a misunderstanding here : the only thing I need is a MC
> feature that allows me to talk to the printer.
> As for generating PostScript on the fly, I will take care of that myself when
> coding my scripts (as I master both PS and MetaTalk).
OK, now *I'm* confused. The UNIX versions of MetaCard can generate
PostScript and it wouldn't be hard to add this ability to the other
engines, but I guess I don't really see the point: only a very small
fraction of printers out there even support PostScript, so why would
you want to use that instead of MetaCard's built-in printing
capabilities, which work with all printers on Windows and MacOS
systems?
> But this feature isn't reserved to ppl who master PostScript : as I wrote
> before,
> you can imagine to have various ready-made PS of PDF files (made in other
> applications) that you can read and then download to the printer for great
> printings...
Then why not just print them from a PDF viewer or something? You
can't print PDF files directly to a PS printer anyway. As I recall
there's even a command-line option to these programs on Win32(\p, I
think it was) so that you could do this from "shell()" or "open
process". It's pretty straightforward to do this on the Mac with
AppleEvents too. It's not straightforward at all on UNIX, however,
but that's because nothing to do with printing is ;-)
> Hope things are more clear now...
Another interpretation of your original question I think would be that
you're asking for some script-based equivalent to "answer printer"
that you could be used to find out what printers are available on the
network and what capabilities they have and to open one of your
choice so that you could write raw data to it. This is already on the
feature request list, but there just aren't that many applications
that could use something like this and so it hasn't been given a very
high priority. For the vast majority of apps, "answer printer" is a
far better way to do things.
Regards,
Scott
> JB
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