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Re: Mac Printing via Ghostscript?



In your message (Sun, 30 Apr 95 22:54 MDT), you wrote:
>>>>>> "Bob" == Bob  <bob@xnet.com> writes:
>
>    Bob> this should be possible, but i'm wondering if anyone's done
>    Bob> it.  can you configure Executor for Linux to print via
>    Bob> ghostscript?  i guess you could print to a file and do it
>    Bob> that way, but it would be nice to configure Executor to do it
>    Bob> automagically.
>
>Sure, we have a Linux box at ARDI set up this way.  Make sure to pick
>up E/L 1.99m before experimenting with printing under Linux.

I suggest you use the excellent 'apsfilter' package.  This is a set of
lpr filters that will automatically detect the type of file being
printed and convert it first to PostScript and then via ghostscript
into whatever format your printer requires.  You can then just use lpr
for pretty well any program, let alone executor, and get properly
printed output!  It's pretty good even if you have a PostScript
printer, since it formats ascii text beautifully, and will also cope
with DVI, GIF, JPEG and all sorts of other things given that you have
suitable conversion software (DVIPS, pbmplus, and so on).

Regards,

Tim.




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