sylvain.nl » os x http://www.sylvain.nl interaction artist Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:03:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Printing from Max/MSP/Jitter http://www.sylvain.nl/blog/printing-from-maxmspjitter/ http://www.sylvain.nl/blog/printing-from-maxmspjitter/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 14:32:56 +0000 sylvain http://www.sylvain.nl/?p=176 For a project i am working on i needed to have a way to print pictures from Max. The first (and easy) step was to save the image to the disk. But for printing a file there is no default object. But thanks to the aka.shell external I was able to actually print the file on a Mac.

Just as simple as:

lpr -P printername "/path/to/file"

Easy as pie. To configure your printer use CUPS: http://127.0.0.1:631/

update
The most common mistake here is that there is a space in the path to the file. To make sure that it works put this in the messagebox that goes to the aka.shell:

lpr -P printername \"/path/to/file with/spaces\"

This will keep the full path intact instead of splitting it at the space, in which case lpr will never find the file.

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