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

[russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Harry,

As far as i know, yep!
Because OS X uses a PDF-like imaging model for its screen display, this
is a nice side-effect. Just give your file a .ps extension and by
default OS X will display the file with a Preview icon. Double Clicking
that file, then, should open it in Preview. (BTW, you can open a
postscript file in Preview, regardless of its extension, and Preview
will try and render and open it as a pdf file.)

Russ

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Russ,
> Does this .pdf ability apply to all iterations of OS X? I have an old
> one (10.3?)
> > For printing, and i toyed with this idea also, you could write/get an
> > Applescript that, running in the background, would look for the
> > existence of a file called like XYOUT.PS. This script would then open
> > it in Preview, and then print the file to your printer.
> > I think i had found/hacked a script to do this, but i didn't want the
> > hassle of something else running in the background, so i just
> > manually send something to the printer this way.
> >
> > Buy you can do something like this.
> >
> > fyi,
> >
> >
> > Russ
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Lisa Kleinholz wrote:
> > > Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now no trouble printing from my
> > > MAC, even using Xy in DosBox.
> > >
> > > Lisa
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx