Re: XY to PDF on OS X--two steps

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Harry,

When i did this, using Virtual PC (VPC) i usually did something like:
1. From XY, printf ,Z:out.ps (I think this is how the printf command
worked.)
The Z: drive was mapped to my desktop via VPC. (If you could network
your mac to your PC, i'm pretty sure you could assign a drive to that
network mapping and do something like this without having write to a
flash drive then take that flash drive to your Mac. Or maybe not.
Depends on your setup.)
2. Double click on out.ps, on my desktop. This would open the file in
Preview automatically.
3. Save this file as a PDF file.
This also saves having to unmount the drive. (While it is a very
simple step to drag the drive icon to the trash to unmount, you CAN
screw things up by just unplugging the flash drive. I think Windows
also complains if you just unplug a flash drive.)

I hope this has helped you to print/create pdf's of your XY doc's.

Russ

On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Yep. These steps:
> 1. use SETP command to load post27.prn
> 2. TYF filename,filename.ps
> 3. Copy filename.ps to flash drive (could go over the network)
> 4. Put flash drive in Mac, copy filename.ps to (e.g.) Mac desktop
> 5. In Finder, open Preview.
> 6. Go to Preview's File menu item, and Open filename.ps
> 7. Save resulting PDF as filename.pdf
> 8. Copy filename.pdf back to flash drive
> 9. Go to Finder and unmount the flash drive (I didn't do this the
> first go-round, and got corrupted date)
> 10. Put flash drive back in Windows machine slot and copy
> filename.pdf back to C:
> Come to think of it, that is more complicated than just using
> PDFCreator on the Windows machine. But it's a lot simpler if you
> can use the network to the Mac rather than a flash drive.
> > Were you able to get that to work Harry?
> >
> > Just curious,
> >
> >
> >
> > Russ
> > On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > > Thanks, Carlo and Russ.
> > >
> > > --Harry
> > > > > Russ,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does this .pdf ability apply to all iterations of OS X? I have an
> > > > > old one (10.3?)
> > > >
> > > > Dear Harry,
> > > >
> > > > I've tested it on both 10.3 and 10.4. Given Russ's explanation of
> > > > the platform's "attitude" toward PDFs, I'd guess it works on
> > > > earlier and later versions as well, but nothing's certain till
> > > > it's tested.
> > > >
> > > > Carlo
> > >
> > >
> > > Harry Binswanger
> > > hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx