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Re: Setting Default Printer In Classic?

On 16/02/2005, at 4:36 AM, Mike Ma wrote: 

Anyway, I have a question regarding Classic and the default printer it
chooses. How do I set Classic to print to whatever printer is currently
registered in the Native Environment as default?

I found a thread on the list, but was confused about exactly what the
solution was.... People were mentioning AppleScripts and other things,
but never mentioned *how* to use AppleScript to accomplish this.

Having spent several days around Christmas trying to do this I'd love to see a solution. Under OS 9 you could use:

tell application "Desktop Printer Manager"
   set the default printer to desktop printer "My favourite printer"
end tell

But Desktop Printer Manager is not compatible with Classic (can't remember the exact words, but that's the gist of it). So short of writing scripts to move or rename various preference files it would seem non-trivial to script changes to the default printer.
cheers,
Ron.
--
Dr Ron Haines,
School of Chemistry, UNSW, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9385 4718 Fax: +61 2 9385 6141

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