Re: How to switch the default printer?
Re: How to switch the default printer?
- Subject: Re: How to switch the default printer?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:22:51 -0700
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Laurent Daudelin
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Well... suppose from my application, I want to convert a Word document to
> PDF. How would I do that? I did quite a bit of research and the only way I
> found was to use CUPS-PDF and have Word print to that printer. Then, I can
> retrieve the converted PDF document. Is there any other way?
> I don't do any printing from my own app but I want to have various
> applications that can print to convert a given document to PDF...
The mental model needs to become "Suppose the user is using Word and
wants to send a PDF to my application." Then they will start a print
job using your virtual printer as the device. If you want to automate
this process, you can send a "print" Apple Event with the appropriate
print settings.
--Kyle Sluder
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