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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:17:52 -0400 Subject: Re: PPR: Mac OSX? Al Wirtes wrote: >Hello, > >I'm new to the list. I've searched the FAQ, and can't find any mention of >running PPR on Mac OSX. Has anyone out there done this? > >I'm looking for a postscript spooler that will give me direct access to the >postscript files so that I can route the print job files to multiple >destinations. That is, I want my Macintosh users to be able to print once >and get three outputs: a hard copy, a postscript file that is stored on the >server, and a PDF from that postscript file. PPR sounds like the right tool >for this. > >If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I'd love to hear them. > >Thanks, >-Al Wirtes >awirtes@managersredbook.com <mailto:awirtes@managersredbook.com> > If I understand correctly, you want to compile and run PPR on MacOS. The only problem I see is with AppleTalk support. I don't haev MacOS X yet and haven't been able to find out anything about it's AppleTalk API. As for spliting jobs to multiple destionations, I suppose you could make a wrapper for ppr which would send the job to multiple queues and hack papsrv to call it. - -- ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center Postmaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106 U.S.A.