Re: Printing from an emulator with Publish It!

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Dean,

Even in Bernie under OS 9 on a Beige G3 with built-in serial ports,
PublishIt! 4 will stumble during its two-way printer polling operation, I
_think_ due to a timing loop that I never tracked down.

Anyway...

The method I use is to "print" (i.e. 'save') the file to disk as PostScript
from within PublishIt!, and then drag and drop the file on top of Apple's
Preview application, or alternatively on top of Adobe's Acrobat Distiller.
This creates a .pdf file that you can print directly from Preview, or any
other application that can read .pdf files.

Be sure to select the option (from within PublishIt!) to prepend the
Laserprep file to the print job.

Finally, you need to make a couple of minor modifications to the stock
Laserprep file (the one included with PublishIt!) to make this all work.

One mod strips off the LaserWriter-specific smoothing code at the end of the
Laserprep file. This code flushes the rest of the PostScript job (i.e. Your
document) if it finds that it's not running on an Apple-branded LaserWriter.

The other mod I use (which may not be of interest to you) involves
re-enabling the ability to use outline fonts from within PublishIt! That do
_not_ choke the Acrobat Distiller.

If anyone here has any interest in these mods, let me know. Otherwise, I
won't waste your time and CSA2 bandwidth.

Hugh Hood


in article 
50f865f0-a262-4a98-af47-ccdd70394287@d23g2000vbm.googlegroups.com,
magnusfalkirk at dean.phares@gmail.com wrote on 9/21/09 5:20 PM:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've got both the Original Publish It! and version 4 and am trying to
> find a way to print a newsletter, or anything else with Publish It,
> from an emulator on the Mac. I tried Sweet16 and it looks like Publish
> It tries to print directly to the Laserwriter, or any other printer,
> so I can't get it to use SweetPrinter that Sheppy has in Sweet16.
> 
> I've also tried Virtual II, I downloaded version 6.3.1, and Publish It
> doesn't seem to run right in that emulator. The original version will
> boot up but when you get to the main screen the pointer disappears and
> the work area goes black. With version 4, on the other hand, the
> pointer does remain visible but then leaves a trail of pointer across
> the screen as you move it. Also when trying to select one of the drop
> down menus it will continually cycle the entire screen and it is
> impossible to choose an item on any menu because you can't see what
> you're trying to select.
> 
> As far as I know these are the only two Apple II emulators that will
> allow you to print out something you've created in an Apple II
> program. Anybody have any ideas?