"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <45e31587$0$2444$db0fefd9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "arnold"
> <x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm not a big PM user, to be fair, but I want to make our Printer Style
>> available on our website for those customers that use PM 6.5 or 7. Can
I
>> ex****t the Printer Styles and get a third party to im****t them? I
>> certainly
>> can't see any obvious way to do it. I found that the file "Pstyles.CNF"
>> holds the Styles on a PC but not so on a Mac. Any PM gurus out there
able
>> to
>> help me please?
>
> I've never bothered to use them, but from a quick play in PageMaker 7
> (and 6.5 is probably the same) shows that Printer Styles are saved in
> the file "Printer Styles" inside the "RSRC" folder - that folder should
> be in the same folder as the PageMaker application itself.
>
> You can't actually im****t / ex****t them in PageMaker itself and I don't
> know of any external utility or plug-in that does it. You can copy the
> file to the same folder on another Mac (and probably copy the Windows
> PC file to the same directory on another Windows PC), BUT there are two
> problems if you do that:
>
> - replacing the existing file will also remove any
> existing Printer Styles, leaving you with JUST the
> ones in the new file,
> and
> - Printer Styles rely on the options set for a
> specific printer driver, so they are unlikely to
> work properly when transfered to another Mac (or
> Windows PC) which has a different printer.
>
Thanks Harry - I did try that it didn't work as expected. Actually, what I
tried to do was im****t a file from the PC to the Mac - maybe I need to do
a
separate file for each. Thanks!
Arnie
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