Mac at Work (was FreeBSD on Dell C400, and other stuff)

When trying to add an Océ Plot Wave 550 wide-format printer to my new Catalina install on my MacBook Pro, I discovered that I could not add the PPD file like I always could before.  I could select Other... for the driver and navigate to the folder containing the PPD file, but all the files were grey and could not be selected. I discovered that the following location had a bunch of gzipped printer PPD files in it: /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources So I copied the ocpw5505.ppd file that I needed to "Oce PlotWave 550" and gzipped it to get "Oce PlotWave 550.gz".  Then I copied it to /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources When I tried to add the printer again, I chose Select Software... and the Oce PlotWave 550 was there in the list.  I selected it, and everything worked fine. * Essential notes: Use the Line Printing Daemon and make sure the Queue value is not blank.

I was lucky enough to be selected as a presenter at Bluebeam's annual user conference, XCON, in 2019.  My presentation was titled "Streamlining Batch Link" and described a way to take advantage of the way Batch Link works in Bluebeam Revu to greatly speed things up.  If you are not familiar with Batch Link, then I suggest you watch Bluebeam's video about it below, otherwise you can skip it. In my presentation, I showed some screenshots of some scripts I used in Powershell.  I want to make those scripts available to everyone with this post. You can download the presentation slide deck from this link , but most of the explanation was verbal so you will probably want to read the short synopsis below or watch the video on YouTube .  Most of the presentation is about exactly how to make the concept work. If you are a text junky like me, here is the basic concept: You can use a 1-page blank pdf file to stand-in for a real document or drawing for the purposes of