Re: How to switch the default printer?
Re: How to switch the default printer?
- Subject: Re: How to switch the default printer?
- From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:27:32 -0700
A "print" Apple Event? Can you elaborate a bit?
-Laurent.
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On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:22, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> 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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