Thanks, Scott! I had started to look at the printing prefs file as it contained information about the printers in use. Appreciate the sharing!
Cheers! -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software laurent.daude...@gmail.com Photo Gallery Store: http://laurentdaudelin.shutterbugstorefront.com/g/galleries On Oct 17, 2009, at 14:18, Scott Ribe wrote: >> Well... suppose from my application, I want to convert a Word document to >> PDF. >> How would I do that? I did quite a bit of research and the only way I found >> was to use CUPS-PDF and have Word print to that printer. Then, I can retrieve >> the converted PDF document. Is there any other way? > > You are right, this is the only way. > > So there's a couple of things you have to deal with, and in particular > things are different in 10.4 & 10.5. (I haven't actually tried this under > 10.6 yet.) A particular quirk is that using lpoptions to set the default > printer does not work if "use last printer" is the option selected for > default printer in system preferences. The below code isn't your exact > answer since it depends on my own code for executing processes, and is C++, > but I think you can read it and get the idea: [snip!]_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
