programatically printing to a postscript file

• Jae Ho Lee programatically printing to a postscript file Jul 09 2006, 17:57
  Hi everyone,
  
  I am writing a simple Cocoa program and I need to programatically
  print to a postscript file programatically.
  
  I used below code to print to a pdf file, but I cannot figure out how to
  save postscript file.
  
  NSMutableDictionary *pdict = [NSMutableDictionary
  dictionaryWithDictionary:[[NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo] dictionary]];
  NSPrinter *printer = [NSPrinter printerWithName:@"myprinter"];
  [pdict setObject:@"/tmp/sampe.pdf" forKey:NSPrintSavePath];
  NSPrintInfo *pinfo = [[NSPrintInfo alloc] initWithDictionary:pdict];
  [pinfo setLeftMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setRightMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setTopMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setBottomMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setPaperSize:[self bounds].size];
  [pinfo setJobDisposition:NSPrintSaveJob];
  [pinfo setPrinter:printer];
  NSPrintOperation *pop = [NSPrintOperation
  printOperationWithView:self printInfo:pinfo];
  [pop setShowsPrintPanel:NO];
  if (![pop runOperation]) NSLog(@"printing failed");
  [pinfo release];
  
  Is there anyway to select "Save PDF as Postscript..." programatically?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  
  Jaeho,
• Jae Ho Lee programatically printing to a postscript file Jul 09 2006, 17:58
  Hi everyone,
  
  I am writing a simple Cocoa program and I need to programatically
  print to a postscript file programatically.
  
  I used below code to print to a pdf file, but I cannot figure out how to
  save postscript file.
  
  NSMutableDictionary *pdict = [NSMutableDictionary
  dictionaryWithDictionary:[[NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo] dictionary]];
  NSPrinter *printer = [NSPrinter printerWithName:@"myprinter"];
  [pdict setObject:@"/tmp/sampe.pdf" forKey:NSPrintSavePath];
  NSPrintInfo *pinfo = [[NSPrintInfo alloc] initWithDictionary:pdict];
  [pinfo setLeftMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setRightMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setTopMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setBottomMargin:0.0];
  [pinfo setPaperSize:[self bounds].size];
  [pinfo setJobDisposition:NSPrintSaveJob];
  [pinfo setPrinter:printer];
  NSPrintOperation *pop = [NSPrintOperation
  printOperationWithView:self printInfo:pinfo];
  [pop setShowsPrintPanel:NO];
  if (![pop runOperation]) NSLog(@"printing failed");
  [pinfo release];
  
  Is there anyway to select "Save PDF as Postscript..." programatically?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  
  Jaeho,
• Gerd Knops Re: programatically printing to a postscript file Jul 12 2006, 19:40
  On Jul 9, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Jae Ho Lee wrote:
  
  

  > Hi everyone,
  >
  > I am writing a simple Cocoa program and I need to programatically
  > print to a postscript file programatically.
  >
  > I used below code to print to a pdf file, but I cannot figure out
  > how to
  > save postscript file.
  >
  > NSMutableDictionary *pdict = [NSMutableDictionary
  > dictionaryWithDictionary:[[NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo] dictionary]];
  > NSPrinter *printer = [NSPrinter printerWithName:@"myprinter"];
  > [pdict setObject:@"/tmp/sampe.pdf" forKey:NSPrintSavePath];
  > NSPrintInfo *pinfo = [[NSPrintInfo alloc] initWithDictionary:pdict];
  > [pinfo setLeftMargin:0.0];
  > [pinfo setRightMargin:0.0];
  > [pinfo setTopMargin:0.0];
  > [pinfo setBottomMargin:0.0];
  > [pinfo setPaperSize:[self bounds].size];
  > [pinfo setJobDisposition:NSPrintSaveJob];
  > [pinfo setPrinter:printer];
  > NSPrintOperation *pop = [NSPrintOperation
  > printOperationWithView:self printInfo:pinfo];
  > [pop setShowsPrintPanel:NO];
  > if (![pop runOperation]) NSLog(@"printing failed");
  > [pinfo release];
  >
  > Is there anyway to select "Save PDF as Postscript..." programatically?
  

  
  I don't think there is. You could call the PDF to PS filter in the
  printing system directly after you generated the PDF. On the command
  line that would look something like this:
  
  /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftops someJobID userName 'TheDocTitle' 1
  '' 'myFile.pdf' >'myFile.ps'
  
  Good luck!
  
  Gerd