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- From: jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin)
- Subject: Re: print to a file? help please!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.132052.24330@devildog.att.com>
- Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)
- References: <1992Dec3.201844.4686@verifone.com> <ByqAvH.BFx@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <quan.724396204@sol>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:20:52 GMT
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- In article <quan.724396204@sol> quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Stephen Quan) writes:
- >sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin David Sexson (Ben)) writes:
- >
- >>Well yes there is a way. If the program is using the windows drivers
- >>set up a driver for your printer on FILE: you do that in the printer
- >>section of the control panel. I use this to get a EPS file to print on
- >>dorm laserprinter
- >>Later,
- >>Benjamin David Sexson
- >>sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu
- >
- >This is if you wanted a postscript file. The Windows 3.1 postscript
- >_printer driver_ lets you print EPS to a file, not Windows 3.1 itself.
- >Other printer drivers may or may not let you print to a file.
- >
- >I guess the original poster meant postscript, but I just like being a
- >little pedantic :).
- >--
- >Stephen Quan (quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au) Tel : 002 202844 (local)
- >Research Fellow, Computer Scientist, Fax : 002 240282 (local)
- >Centre for Spatial Information Systems, Tel : 61 02 202844
- >University of Tasmania, Australia. Fax : 61 02 240282
-
- The respondent is incorrect. Any windows print driver can be set up to
- print to a file. Open "Control Panel," then open "Printers." Choose the
- print driver you need, the click on the box on the right labeled "Connect."
- In the Connect dialog box you will see a scrollable list labeled "Ports:".
- Scroll down to "File" and choose it. You're all set. When you're ready to
- print something, first go into Print Setup and choose your new driver. Then
- print. You're get a dialog box that asks you for the name of the file you
- want to print to. Enter the file name, hit enter, and you're all done.
- --
- Jim Dalin "No Salga Afuera"
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