printing from ETKA, was: Heard at a dealership ...

[Andrei Talalaevskii <andrei@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>]

Nice exchange:


On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Phil Payne wrote:
> 
> <Voices from the depths of the spares department>
> 
>  "Wassat?"
> 
>  "It's a list of a couple of dozen parts."
> 
>  "I can see that, you fool.  But it's from ETKA.  Where'd
>   you get it?"
> 
>  "Phil gave it to me.  He wants us to order them."
> 
>  "But it's printed."
> 
>  "Yeah."
> 
>  "So not only has he got ETKA, which he shouldn't have, BUT HE
>   KNOWS HOW TO PRINT FROM IT!!!   GET HIM IN HERE!!!"
>


Maybe it's WOB but just in case someone needs to print and save pics from 
ETKA and has problems with that, here is how I do it.

1. get the picture you want on the screen

2. click "print"
The box will pop-ub which will ask you to chose an option (it will ask in 
a mix of English and German). Choose: "two pages", "all text". And in 
printer settings chose "print to file". If you have a PS printer driver, 
you'll get a PS file. It will prompt you for a file name for each page.

3. This PS files can be later distilled to PDF (you need an Adobe Acrobat 
Distiller) and merged to a single file

alternatively if you have an Adobe Acrobat Exchange package, you should 
be able to   choose "acrobat PDF writer" as a "printer" and get a PDF file 
at once. If I remember right, it didn't work for me for some reason. So I 
made a PS and distilled it.

The last trick, you might get a page size A4 (A4 is not always a car :)
instead of standard US LETTER. Either resize it later, or use paper
accordingly. 

HTH,
Andrei
golf & 4kq