printing from a Mac

Javier Reyes jreyes at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 20:28:52 UTC 2007


Thanks a lot John, that will do !!

         -Javier

On 1/18/07, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Well there is a printJob plugin and smalltalk code to interface to
> OSX printing logic to print forms, or embedded postscript.
>
> PrintJobPlugin.v1.4.2.bundle.zip
>
> On my iDisk, via http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
>
> PrintJobPlugin.v1.4.2.bundle.zip
> RealPrinting-JMM.7.cs.zip
>
> With help with Impara last Dec I changed the print form logic to
> print to the chosen printer via Quartz, versus quickdraw to support
> macIntel, and rewrote
> the logic to enable the usage of embedded postscript. I'll note if
> you use postscript you can only see the results on a postscript
> device, printing to
> a PDF won't show the data.
>
> Your other choice is to make a *.ps file and use the OSProcess plugin
> or the Applescript interface to open the *.ps file which will convert
> it to a PDF.
> Also you could use the AppleScript or OSProcess plugin to invoke
> ps2pdf, I'll note you can execute shell script from AppleScript, and
> go from there.
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Javier Reyes wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I work on PC but I'm developing something for Mac using Squeak. The
> > final result is a Form made with Morphic and saved in Poscript.
> >
> > Is there any way I can launch the printing task from my application?
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> >                      -Javier
> >
> >
>
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