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- Printer Defaults 1.1.1
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-
- Printer Defaults is an application to modify the default settings in
- printer drivers. It has been tested on various machines running systems
- 7.0.1 and 7.1 with a large number of different printer drivers including
- LaserWriter 8.0 and 8.1.1. If you want a more substantial range of
- patches for laser printers then get hold of Don Markuson's
- dmm-laserwriter collection available, for example, by anonymous ftp from
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu and mirrors in the directory info-mac/util.
-
-
- WARNING!!!
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-
- YOU SHOULD ONLY MODIFY A COPY OF THE PRINTER DRIVER, NEVER THE ORIGINAL.
-
-
- Printer Defaults works by reading in the default settings for the TPrint
- Record stored in the resource of type 'PREC' with ID 0 in the driver and
- then doing a Page Setup. Any changes are written back to the driver
- become its new defaults.
-
- BUT, once a Page Setup has been done, any application may save a copy of
- PREC 0 in its own resource fork, or preferences file, or settings
- document or each individual document and use this in preference to the
- defaults in the driver for future calls to Page Setup. Many word
- processors do this for each document. TeachText always fetches the PREC
- 0 afresh so is a good way to test if changes have stuck. There's lots of
- this sort of cacheing going on which can appear to defeat setting the
- defaults in the driver.
-
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- Double click Printer Defaults and use the Standard File dialog to select
- a printer driver to configure (or drop one or more drivers onto Printer
- Defaults' icon under System 7). This will bring up a Page Setup dialog
- which you can use to select the new defaults. Clicking OK will save
- these back to the driver, Cancel will go on
- without saving.
-
- A Print... dialog will then appear so that any changes already made which
- affect its appearance can be seen, and, in the case of some drivers, any
- settings in the Print dialog which can be written to PREC 0 can be
- altered. This varies with the driver, and in any case may be ignored at
- print time (according to Inside Mac). Just try it and see.
-
- For some printer drivers, there are some additional options which cannot
- be accessed from either of these two standard printer dialogs. If any
- are applicable to the driver you are modifying an additional dialog will
- appear in between the above dialogs.
-
-
- LaserWriter 5.x, 6.0, 6.0.1
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-
- The Print dialog of LaserWriter 5.x, 6.0, 6.0.1 contains a hidden
- checkbox to allow printing of PostScript output to a disk file rather
- than a printer. Printer Defaults can make this checkbox visible.
-
-
- LaserWriter 8.x
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-
- There is a possible problem with LaserWriter 8.x (and Adobe's PSPrinter):
- If there is no LaserWriter 8 Preferences (or LaserWriter 8.0
- Preferences) file in the Preferences folder of the active system file
- will get an error message announcing this. The solution is to put the
- driver in the Extensions folder and select it with the Chooser. This
- will create a valid Preferences file and allow Printer Defaults to open
- the driver.
-
- For LaserWriter 8.x a second dialog of options will also be displayed.
- Some are additional options from Don Markuson's collection of
- LaserWriter patches which allow the use of the Setup button in the
- Chooser at all times, and add the n-up printing menu to the Print
- dialog. A final option allows the LaserWriter driver to be used without
- AppleTalk. This is useful for PS File generation as it removes the
- driver's ability to actually connect to a printer. LaserWriter 8.1.1
- contains a PRFS -8192 resource, many of whose meanings are unknown to me
- - I simply read the titles of the check boxes from the TMPL supplied and
- allow the user to turn any of them on or off.
-
-
- Thanks
- ------
-
- Thanks to Don Markuson for all those useful LaserWriter patches and
- allowing me to include some in Printer Defaults. He was also kind enough
- to comment on an early version of Printer Defaults and suggest several
- improvements. Thanks also to Ian Harries for bringing Don's LaserWriter
- 8 patches to my attention and giving me the initial stimulus to write
- Printer Defaults.
-
-
- Legalese
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-
- Printer Defaults is © 1993 by John Rawnsley but may be used freely. You
- use it at your own risk. Always work on a COPY of the printer driver,
- never the orginal.
-
-
- Contacts
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- Internet: jhr@maths.warwick.ac.uk
- CompuServe: 100015,632
- Mail: John Rawnsley
- Mathematics Institute
- University of Warwick
- Coventry
- CV4 7Al
- United Kingdom
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-
- Version history
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-
- Version 1.1.1 fixes a memory problem bug and has an improved
- interface.
-
- Version 1.1 added some of Don Markuson's patches for LaserWriter
- 8.
-
- Version 1.0 was the first public release and allowed the user
- to save the Page Setup settings as defaults. It allowed the
- LaserWriter 8.1.1 PRFS resource to be edited.
-
-