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- From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
- To: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
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- Subject: Re: Executor kudos and a question/suggestion
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- >>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> writes:
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- Donald> Now, on to my question. Is it possible to switch printing
- Donald> modes "on the fly"? What I mean is this: Normally, I have
- Donald> my Executor print directly to my PostScript printer. This
- Donald> makes sense, since I when I choose "print" I usually mean
- Donald> to print something. HOWEVER, sometimes I'd like to
- Donald> generate a Postscript file -- for example, when I want to
- Donald> FAX my resume to a prospective employer, I have to
- Donald> generate a PostScript file which I can then send through
- Donald> the Hylafax program (which expects PostScript files on
- Donald> input). I have to do this by quitting Executor (thus
- Donald> interrupting my work, etc.) and running it with the
- Donald> "-printer" switch to tell it to print to a file. It would
- Donald> be nice to be able to do this while running Executor,
- Donald> either by a configuration option, a hot-key, or a holding
- Donald> down a special key while choosing the "Print" command
- Donald> (say, if you hold down Clover-LeftShift while choosing
- Donald> Print, it'll print to a file).
-
- Donald> I primarily need this feature in the Linux version fo
- Donald> Executor, however it might be useful for the DOS folks
- Donald> too(?).
-
- Donald> Is this possible? If not, is it feasible enough to add
- Donald> this feature? Please let me know. Thanks!
-
- There's no built in way to do this. However, under Linux Executor
- will pipe the printer output through a script called
- "executor_filter". You could write your own executor_filter script
- that either sends the output to a printer or to a file, depending on
- something you can toggle while Executor is running, e.g. the presence
- or absence of a magic "use_printer" file. It's a hack, I know, but it
- should work.
-
- -Mat
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