squeak printing?

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Feb 8 03:36:13 UTC 2002


John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> >>The printForms: or printPostscriptPages: are really just convence 
> >>methods to feed items to printForm: or printPostScript: Of course I 
> >>need to feed a page number in there somewhere.
> >>
> >
> >Okay, I think I've got it. One page is printed per printForm: and 
> >one page is printed per printPostScript:. If I want to mix Forms and 
> >postscript on the same page I've got to do it myself. Fair enough.
> >
> >-Martin
> 
> Ah, ok, then I'll need to add a page start and a page end prim here 
> if you want to extrude both a form and overlay with postscript on the 
> same page. That's a bit more complicated, but doable at least from 
> the mac printing side.
> -- 


This is starting to sound complicated.  What are we gaining over just
having two primitives?

	printForm:
	printPostscript:


-Lex



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