Re: Postscript from Quark
Re: Postscript from Quark
- Subject: Re: Postscript from Quark
- From: Ken Grimm <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:46:11 -0500
On 7/15/02 10:36 AM, Michiel (werk) at email@hidden didst forever
and always commit to the digital human communication archive:
>
<snip> but I can't find the right way to get the file into the folder I want.
>
Can you give me some hints how to do it.
Good morning ya'll from the state of Texas:
Printing by AppleScript from Quark qualifies as a black art, IMHO. It is a
mighty strange puppy.
The advice I got from this list and found to be excellent is to move/copy --
if you can -- the entire document to be printed to the startup drive of the
Mac running the script. What MUST be done: print the postscript file to the
root directory of the startup machine. THEN move that postscript file to the
RIP through the finder. Then cleanup after yourself, archive or trash,
depending on your workflow.
The benefits are extremely fast printing and reliability of the destination
of the output. Since I incorporated the above technique in my scripts to
produce our daily newspaper pages, I have had no issues with printing under
script control.
Before, the postscript file *regardless* of what the script syntax was,
would randomly end up on any given mounted volume. I had to test for the
existence of the postscript file in a repeat loop for all mounted volumes,
and when the test returned true, THEN move the postscript file, wherever it
happened to wind up, to the hot folder of the RIP.
Under script control, QXP would also print separations --
sometimes/maybe/if: the moon was waxing/Dow was up/I just washed my car/held
tongue against left cheek/offered up an intern as sacrifice.
Example: if I told it just to print black and magenta, it might print JUST
the black, then merrily go right along like it was done. Only recompiling
the script fixed this, and then it would break again at random intervals.
Hardly an optimum solution for unattended printing.
So I used the technique described above, and have had no problems since
then.
If anyone else has figured out a different way to ALWAYS insure that Quark
prints in the manner you expect it to, I'd love to hear your success
stories.
(We use NT servers, BTW, I think that may have something to do with it.)
Ken Grimm
Prepress Manager
San Angelo Standard-Times
915-659-8357
email@hidden
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