Re: need help printing from quark
Re: need help printing from quark
- Subject: Re: need help printing from quark
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:37:51 -0500
Just my input...
I use this script everyday... and it works 100% of the time..
set projNumber to "FileName"
tell application "QuarkXPress"
print document 1 PostScript file (projNumber & ".ps")
close document 1 saving no
end tell
This will save the postscript file to your startup disk... then you
could write a script to move the .ps file to another location. The
only problem is that you need to tell the script to wait for the
"Desktop Printer Manager" to finish the script... I have a garbled
script that I use to do this... won't post it ... not pretty...
Let me know if I can help?
Kevin
email@hidden
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 12:27 PM, Wadson, David wrote:
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
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:40 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: need help printing from quark
Pete....this is my cue to say that you should get your boss to spring
for
MadeToPrint a Quark xtension that allows you to create print styles,
which
include links to specific printers, and then call them from an
applescript.
It's a little pricey, but it eliminates all the hassle of scripting
the
quark
print setup record, which has always been something of a moving
target.
MTP
is by callas software.
With or without MadeToPrint, printing to file can be a challenge
because
its
sometimes hard to control where the file ends up. I don't know all the
whys
and wherefores, but a trick that worked for us was to set up a network
print
spooler, instead of a folder, to capture the postscript stream and
save
it
to a file.
HTH
Robert Kyle
Star Tribune
Minneapolis
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