Re: Printing on Mac OS X.

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.

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
>
>

Received on Friday, 27 November 2009 11:53:15 UTC