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

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Russ,
I do have VPC (pre-Microsoft-owned version), but I don't run Xy in it,
partly because it's a bit too slow on my old 833MHz iBook.
As to yanking out flash drives: in my Win XP as long as the lights have
stopped flashing, I have no problem. I did in Win 98.
> 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


Harry Binswanger
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