Re: Printing on Mac OS X.

Irene Vatton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.amaya.general
Organization INRIA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le vendredi 27 novembre 2009 à 12:52 +0100, Pascal a écrit :
> Hi Peter.
> 
> Is there a way to generate a PostScript file with present Amaya  
> source without using standard Mac OS printing services?
> It would be a middle way as PS file can be opened and printed or  
> translated to PDF.

Normally it will be possible with the next 11.3 release.

> 
> Regards, Pascal.
> http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le 19 nov. 09 à 20:49, Peter Kerr a écrit :
> 
> >
> > On 19/11/2009, at 10:07 PM, Irene Vatton wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >
> >> Yes, today printing text require postscript.
> >> I don't have time to work seriously on the printing.
> >>
> >>
> > ...
> >> Amaya is not able to send the generated file to a printer. If you  
> >> have a
> >> batch command able to do it (like lpr on Linux platforms), you can
> >> insert that command in the print dialog.
> >
> > MacOS-X uses an unnatural combination of cups for printing
> > and its native Quartz graphics engine with pseudo display pdf.
> >
> > Applications which use Apple's Text Services for Unicode
> > and the Quartz rendering engine can use Apple's Print dialog,
> > which offers options of print to paper, or to file, .ps or .pdf
> >
> > I'm sorry I don't have the programming skills to compile
> > a version of Amaya that takes advantage of this
> >
> > Peter Kerr
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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Irene Vatton <[email protected]>
INRIA
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