>>As I said, I don't know what the format is. I do have two solutions that work for me; one is to produce output in Adobe Acrobat format using the (non-PD) Acrobat print driver from Adobe, and do on-screen previewing and printing using the Adobe Acrobat reader, or to produce Encapsulated Postscript output with the standard Microsoft Postscript driver, and do screen previewing with the GhostScript reader; I can send Encapsulated Postscript output directly to a Postscript-capable printer, or use GhostScript's print capabilities to send selected pages to a printer. I'd recommend either of these two mechanisms; the Postscript solution is more portable outside of PC/Windows environments, since GhostScript or compatible readers are widely available for Mac and most Unix environm,ents as well as the Windows environments. It's especially attractive if you use Postscript capable printers, since the output can be routed to a Postscript-capable printer without invoking the reader to interpret the
>format and reformat it to the printer.
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>Ed,
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>Where can i get Ghostscript and the Adobe Printer driver, I'm very interrested (and i think many others with me) in the solutions you found to store and manipulate graphical printer output.
Ghostscript can be downloaded from any GNU distribution site; I'd go to
Walnut Creek's cdrom.com normally, or shareware.com; the Adobe printer driver is available from Adobe; I don't have a URL for them at hand, but they're probably something like
www.adobe.com :-).
If you're in a pure PC/Windows environment, the Adobe solution is
much easier to implement and configure; the Acrobat reader is free, and pretty universal now, and automatically hooks through the registry to launch the viewer from Explorer when you open a file with a .PDF extension. Ghostscript or similar Postscript viewers are available for the PC environment, Macs and virtually all Unix environments (since the GNU project posts the C source for it, anything that has a gcc compiler ported to it and supports XWindows or a similar Windowing environment can use Ghostscript), and the Mac has had a native EPS viewer for ages. EPS has the added advantages that it's easier to text search and more accessible for the visually impaired, since it's an enhanced text format rather than a pure graphical representation.
