Art Alexion on 19 May 2005 14:58:04 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Mac client, Linux server(s)


gyoza@comcast.net wrote:

> Walt Mankowski wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:11:02AM -0400, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Since not everyone has the (free) software to create a PDF, I think
>>> it would make sense if people shared read-only documents in
>>> Postscript.  HTML is good, too, but it depends on local fonts and
>>> screen size.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Ghostscript comes with (free) ps2pdf utility.
>>  
>>
> That's true.  I use Ghostscript under XP with GSview.  But, it isn't
> as simple as it could be.
>
> On the other foot, most computers can easily install Postscript
> printer drivers.  Postscript viewers are another story.  No one will
> do it anyway, so PDFs it is.

It's a simple task to write a word macro that prints to ps and invokes
ps2pdf in a hidden DOS box.  Then it isn't much harder to have it launch
the default PDF viewer and create an outbound email with the PDF
attached....

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