In article <45e48571$0$32014$fa0fcedb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "arnold"
<x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "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!
I don't use Windows, but the names of the file being different would
lead me to think that you do need two separate files - one Windows
version and one Mac version, created by their own version of PageMaker.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hard****ps ;o)
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