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GXPD 44 - Flattening Objects Separately (9-Jan-97)

Q I'm a developer working on supporting Quickdraw GX printing in my application. I've seen APIs and documentation on flattening Jobs, Shapes, and Collections. I haven't seen any way to flatten other objects, however. Ideally, I'd like to be able to flatten a Format object and PaperType object so they can be stored separately from their related Job. Can this be done?

A Currently, there is no way to flatten a format or papertype object without flattening its associated job. The overhead of the flattened job is very little, though, so it should not be a major hit to simply flatten the associated job. We may provide other flattening functions in a future release of QuickDraw GX, but for the current releases you'll need to flatten the entire job.

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