Re: [PLUG] print to file in windows?

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:56, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> can't help but use windows for this task - since ErWin isn't available 
> for linux.
> i don't think ghostscript/view is going to show up as a printer option, 
> will it?

Didn't we have this discussion about printing to PDFs under Windows
before? I use Ghostscript with it's REDMON (Redirection Monitor), and
the FreePDF program. And I can make PDFs on Win2K from Word, by printing
to a PS printer I defined. The REDMON redirects the print output into
Ghostscript , and out came a readable PDF.

In the PRINTERS list, you don't see Ghostscript; you see the phantom PS
printer you install (I chose an Apple LaserWriter). The define the port
it prints to to be the REDMON port.

It's all in the FreePDF documentation, and might be documented at the GS
site, too.

> 
> 
> Art Clemons wrote:
> 
> >> anyone know how to do this in win2k? i'd like to convert the ps to pdf .
> >
> >
> >
> > If you insist on Windows, there are several different ways, The 
> > Ghostview/Ghostscript combination will do it easily, that's the 
> > simplest method.  If you're using Wp9 or wp10, it prints to PDF, so 
> > there would be no need to generate a PS file.  Oh yes a word of 
> > advice, be sure that the printer driver selected actually uses PS, it 
> > makes it a lot easier to actually do, rather than having a PRN or PS 
> > file that really is not PS.
> >
> >
> >
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