Re: [PLUG] Postscript (was Re: John "MAD DOG" Hall)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 11:25 AM -0400 10/11/01, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I remember having a terribly hard time trying to print a postscript
> document on a postscript window printer under NT 4.0.

	I don't know what you tried, but you can just drag the PS 
file onto the icon of the printer that you wish to print to, and it 
will handle it - assuming a Postscript printer!


> Maybe things
> have gotten better, but then the problem was that windows always
> wanted to associate the file with some application which would decide
> how to print it.

	Right.  Direct printing of PS files is not something the 
average user does on Windows (or Mac OS) and therefore it's not setup 
as the "norm".  But it's certainly doable on both platforms.


>  Postscript files don't fit well into this model.
> They're already formatted for printing, so you just want to send them
> to the printer as is.

	Exactly!   HOWEVER, keep in mind that Postscript can also be 
VERY device dependant and that PS generated for one device may not 
print correctly (or even at all!) on another.   This is why there are 
PPD's (Printer Property Descriptions).


Leonard
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