Re: Printing Postscript Files
Re: Printing Postscript Files
- Subject: Re: Printing Postscript Files
- From: Ken Grimm <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:42:56 -0600
On 11/27/02 11:50 AM, Frank W. Walker at email@hidden didst forever
and always commit to the digital human communication archive:
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I'm trying to write a script that prints a Quark document as a postscript file
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and saves it to a particular location. So far I have been successful in
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printing the postscript, but I never know where it is going to end up.
Frank,
I had the exact same experience here. It seems that QXP gets very confused
about its current state of pointers and direction, especially in a network
and/or multiple hard disk environment. The only solution that worked for me,
which was suggested from the folks here *have I said thanks enough?*, was to
assemble the file to be printed on the *startup* drive, then print from
there to the root folder of the same startup drive.
Any other configuration I tried (and there were MANY) left files on any
given mounted drive. One quickie workaround was to test for the existence of
the printed file on every hard drive mounted, then copy the file to the
intended watched folder or hot folder for the RIP. But that got slow, some
of the files are huge.
So I followed Shane's advice about using the startup drive only, and that
has proven to be the best solution yet.
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I want
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it to go to a watched folder to be distilled into a PDF.
(See above) then move it to the watched folder of your choice.
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Obviously, there's nothing there to tell Quark where to save to.
You can tell it all you want. QXP is a teenager -- it will do what it bloody
well pleases. I still maintain printing under script control in QXP
qualifies as a black art.
Even today, I will trash a QXP file and then try to empty the trash, and the
Finder will tell me the file can't be deleted 'cause it's busy. I have to
quit QXP, then the files in the trash can be emptied. Go figger.
Ken
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