[softwarelist] Re: .pdf creation for OvationPro

In article <f9005d434f.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9 Nov, John Cartmell wrote in message
>   <4f3f05efe3john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > On 09 Nov, Ray Dawson <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Surely what would be ideal is !Printers printing the file to the same
> > > place as the saved file from the application. That way they are kept
> > > together. It could also adopt the same file name, but with a suitable
> > > suffix so that it doesn't overwrite the original?
> > 
> > I like Ray's idea as an option

> As Martin has already explained, Ray's idea can't work because Printers
> never knows where a file has come from.

> However, it may be worth mentioning that in a -- probably unrelated --
> discussion with a PrintPDF user, a similar idea was requested.  This has
> now been modified into the more practical idea of dragging a file into
> the Save As window to set the name of the file to save.

> This has now made it into the latest version of PrintPDF -- it might help
> someone here.  The theory goes that you would drag the original file into
> the Save PDF window, which would give the PDF the same path and leafname,
> with with the extension changed to /pdf.

Thanks for the latest version Steve. (0.51).
And that last bit about the drag to the Save Window dialogue, works a
treat.

Excellent that man.  :-)
Cheers
Dave S

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