> Well, then I might be an alien... ;-)
>
> Seriously : I would need such a feature for about 80% of the apps I'm
> asked to develop these days... No kidding !
>
> And again : offering such great printing capabilities is often the kind of
> little detail that makes you beat your competitor who's trying to convince
> the client to use Macromind...
Ditto that from our press shop where we "live and breath" digital ps script
files and putting ink on paper in the classiest possible way is what we do
everyday. Though I don't have any "clients" at hand. . .the potential apps
that one could build if MC had high end print capabilities are fairly
awesome. The "AppleFrance" application mentioned above could be duplicated
for all sorts of MC eBooks where you would also offer teachers high res
printing options for classroom distribution, and most home printers now are
.ps enabled.
>From another alien in Hawaii, whose watching this thread with great
interest, who never saw an office that didn't have a PS print on line
somewhere. . . .
for what its worth: a known mac hack to pass a ps file to a printer is,
under script control, make a temp copyfile in the Print Monitor documents
folder in the system folder, set it's type to "pjob" and creator to "pmtr"
(using externals) then launch it with the print monitor which prints to the
default printer. This is about 6 lines of code and requires no knowledge of
applevents nor that applescript be enabled. Setting aside the creation of
the file itself for the moment, and the fact that the above is pretty
clutsy. . .it could be a "thumbnail" sketch for a windows version of the
same scenario. . .i.e. the crossplatform solution for already created .ps
files should be doable now? . .since any printing scenario I think is just
passing a ps file to the onboard printing services of whatever platform you
are on?? But my vision is severely Mac blinkered. . .
We already face this need now with "Mystic Mouse" because, (surprise!) there
is still a (large) group of people out there who resist even messing Acrobat
Reader to print PDFs! Despite all the hype, PDF is still a bit of a dinosaur
for all but an elite strata and while PDF evolves into the really high end
high res prepress standard, for the masses it may be superceded. . .already
eBooks are moving toward HTML and some have actually dropped their PDF
production of the same titles. I might as well have spent all the time
creating ps files (out of Illustrator) which could be printed from MC (if
that were possible. . .) Then instead of pointing users to a web site with
PDF's and having them discover "Oh God, I have to download another
application to use these. Forget it!" I would just have the app
http/download the .ps file on demand in the background, save it to the
user's hard drive and print it from MC. And they could all live on a CD
without any third app required for printing. . .
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