Re: [PLUG] Printing company recommendations?

[Andrew Bennett <andrew@bennettsathome.com>]

This may be a bit late for your job, but may be of help to others:

You can use Ghostscript to convert your PostScript files to PDF files like 
this:

ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf

where file.ps is your existing PostScript file and file.pdf is what you want 
your outputted PDF file to be called.

Alternately, if you prefer to use the actual Ghostscript command directly:

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=file.pdf file.ps

See the file doc/Ps2pdf.htm in your Ghostscript directory for more options.

Also, the default KDE print interface with CUPS on my SuSE 9.0-based machine 
has nice, ready to use options to produce PDF directly.  Recent versions of 
OpenOffice.org also support PDF output natively.

-- Andrew

On Monday 12 April 2004 10:45, Ben Dugan wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>  > Ben Dugan wrote:
>  >> (I know, I know... Why can't I just use my 1200 dpi inkjet output
>  >> and be happy?  Well, we're going to our first conference and we
>  >> need (a) a few large format things and (b) a glossy one page flier
>  >> with photos.)
>  >
>  > I was actually thinking color *laser* printer.
>  >
>  > How large is "large format?"
>
> Something like 2 feet by 4 feet.
>
>  > What about converting to PDF?  (Not that I know a good reason why
>  > PDF would be more acceptable than Postscript.)
>
> Funny you should mention that...  A printing company here in Phila
> called ServicePoint seems to be able to do what I need.  They want
> Illustrator files, but can use, for example, PDFs.  I just sent them a
> postscript file & I'll see if they can use it.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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