RE: need help printing from quark
RE: need help printing from quark
- Subject: RE: need help printing from quark
- From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:27:15 -0400
I never thought of the network print spooler option. A LOT of people have
consistently had trouble getting Quark to save Postscript files, myself
included. We normally printed straight to our imagesetter, but now that we
got a second one, we print Postscript files to a hot folder and the two
imagesetters pull the files out of that folder. Because I couldn't get Quark
to automatically print straight to a Postscript file, we have to manually do
the print step. We end up doing it twice for each page of our paper we print
- once for the imagesetter, and again for a PDF archive of the page. We
can't use the same postscript file for both because when we make the PDF we
want a composite of the page with no registration marks but we need those
when we print the negatives. We use scripts to change all the necessary
print setup options (PPD file, paper size, registration, separations,
tiling, etc.) but then manually choose the print command and save the file
into the proper folder. It would be really sweet if using a print spooler
could eliminate that and bypass all of Quark's quirks with saving postscript
files.
David Wadson
Coordinator of Graphic Services
The Chronicle-Journal
Thunder Bay, Ontario
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From: email@hidden
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Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:40 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: need help printing from quark
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Pete....this is my cue to say that you should get your boss to spring for
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MadeToPrint a Quark xtension that allows you to create print styles, which
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include links to specific printers, and then call them from an
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applescript.
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It's a little pricey, but it eliminates all the hassle of scripting the
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quark
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print setup record, which has always been something of a moving target.
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MTP
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is by callas software.
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With or without MadeToPrint, printing to file can be a challenge because
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its
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sometimes hard to control where the file ends up. I don't know all the
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whys
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and wherefores, but a trick that worked for us was to set up a network
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print
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spooler, instead of a folder, to capture the postscript stream and save
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it
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to a file.
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HTH
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Robert Kyle
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Star Tribune
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Minneapolis
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