RE: Printing Postscript Files
RE: Printing Postscript Files
- Subject: RE: Printing Postscript Files
- From: "Frank W. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:02:32 -0500
- Thread-topic: Printing Postscript Files
Thanks for the reply. Since I posted the question, I looked through the archives and found several discussions which were relevant to my problem. Based on this, I tried the following:
I set a variable to the path and name of the file I want to print, i.e.
set filename to "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:pdf:in:" & docname & ".ps" as text
then when I print I put the variable filename as the name:
print page 1 of front document Postscript file filename
So far, it seems to print to the path I specified. However, in my brief time looking through the archives, I have seen many complaints about erratic printing of files from Quark, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
frank
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From: Ken Grimm
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Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:42 PM
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To: Frank W. Walker; email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Printing Postscript Files
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On 11/27/02 11:50 AM, Frank W. Walker at email@hidden didst forever
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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.
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Frank,
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I had the exact same experience here. It seems that QXP gets very confused
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about its current state of pointers and direction, especially in a network
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and/or multiple hard disk environment. The only solution that worked for me,
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which was suggested from the folks here *have I said thanks enough?*, was to
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assemble the file to be printed on the *startup* drive, then print from
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there to the root folder of the same startup drive.
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Any other configuration I tried (and there were MANY) left files on any
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given mounted drive. One quickie workaround was to test for the existence of
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the printed file on every hard drive mounted, then copy the file to the
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intended watched folder or hot folder for the RIP. But that got slow, some
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of the files are huge.
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So I followed Shane's advice about using the startup drive only, and that
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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.
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(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.
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You can tell it all you want. QXP is a teenager -- it will do what it bloody
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well pleases. I still maintain printing under script control in QXP
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qualifies as a black art.
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Even today, I will trash a QXP file and then try to empty the trash, and the
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Finder will tell me the file can't be deleted 'cause it's busy. I have to
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quit QXP, then the files in the trash can be emptied. Go figger.
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Ken
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