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Stupid GSOS Postscript to PDF Trick...
- Subject: Stupid GSOS Postscript to PDF Trick...
- From: "Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>
- Date: 8 Aug 2006 13:46:48 -0700
- Complaints-to: groups-abuse@google.com
- Injection-info: i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.73.69.132; posting-account=XA9xRA0AAABNR5_-pqpZbCGzCZbThPwX
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: http://groups.google.com
- User-agent: G2/0.2
- Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.sys.apple2:11270
Though I'm sure this is nothing new, (but I couldn't find it searching
through Google groups) but...
On a lark, I thought I would transfer a Postscript file generated from
the GS/OS 6.01 Laserwriter driver to my Windows PC, and then run it
through Acrobat Pro 7.
Out popped a perfectly great looking PDF file, suitable for printing,
sharing, or filing. No errors that I could see, through admitedly, it
was just a BeagleWrite word processing file without graphics.
I bet the Open Sourced GhostScript would do just as well with it.
And now for my next trick, I need to work out a way for the GS to send
that Postscript output down the the serial cable/null modem block
automatically (should be trivial), where a Windows program will
automatically save the output as a text file, then push it through the
Acrobat converter, and then optionally print it directly. It could
almost be done with script files and Hyperterminal...
-Warr