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Dear all,
It's possible to print postscript ( *.ps ) with lpr command under Linux
or print command under Windows?
It's not compatible with print command under windows, it's possible to convert
*.ps into *.prn so i can print it under windows.

Quote:>Dear all,
>It's possible to print postscript ( *.ps ) with lpr command under Linux

Yes, certainly. Depending on your distribution, and your personal preferences,
your printer setup will include one of the many print filter packages. These
print filter packages take the responsibility for co-ordinating printing, and
usually (for postscript data) invoke the GhostScript interpreter under the
covers. You feed postscript to the spooling software, and it (through
Ghostscript) converts it to the proper format to print on your printer.

Quote:>or print command under Windows?

Only if you have a postscript interpreter or postscript-compatable printer on
your Windows system. If you are using a Samba share as your windows printer, you
can (usually) configure the windows printer as one of the postscript printers,
and print to it that way.

Quote:>It's not compatible with print command under windows,

Not entirely true, but I'll let that pass...

Quote:> it's possible to convert *.ps into *.prn so i can print it under windows.

Don't know about that, but you _can_ convert it to a PDF (using the Linux ps2pdf
command) and use Adobe Acrobat to print the PDF on your Windows box.

Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:07:30 GMT, Lew Pitcher staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

Ever taken a look at a .PRN file under Windoze?  All the ones I've seen
have been PostScript files with the "wrong" filename extension.  If you
rename the file, you should be able to do whatever it is that you do
with a .PRN file under 'Doze to get it to print.  Alternatively,
GhostScript for Windows will take .PS files and print them.

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: Dear all,
: It's possible to print postscript ( *.ps ) with lpr command under Linux
: or print command under Windows?

Most linux distributions give you tools to set up your printer with
ghostscript.  When you type lpr, the postscript file is converted into
your printer's native language.

You can set up the same deal in windows by using RedMon and ghostscript
for windows.

: It's not compatible with print command under windows, it's possible to convert
: *.ps into *.prn so i can print it under windows.

I've been having problems with TeX and postscript...  I have an hp890c
connected to a Windows box and have configured my RHL7.1 with
printtool to access it via samba.  Now, if I*testpage.tex and
dvips the .dvi file and then print the .ps file, the top half-inch
goes bye-bye.  However, ghostview shows the page un*erated.  If I
use the -O option to dvips to try to generate a half-inch offset, then
ghostview displays a blank page and nothing at all prints.

I'm going to try converting the .ps file to .pdf with ps2pdf and
try printing the file from Acrobat on Windows, but I'd obviously like
to avoid such "drastic" solutions.

Anybody got any ideas on how to convince RHL7.1 to give me back the
top half-inch of my documents?

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]> : Dear all,
]> : It's possible to print postscript ( *.ps ) with lpr command under Linux
]> : or print command under Windows?
]>
]> Most linux distributions give you tools to set up your printer with
]> ghostscript.  When you type lpr, the postscript file is converted into
]> your printer's native language.

]I've been having problems with TeX and postscript...  I have an hp890c
]connected to a Windows box and have configured my RHL7.1 with
]printtool to access it via samba.  Now, if I*testpage.tex and
]dvips the .dvi file and then print the .ps file, the top half-inch
]goes bye-bye.  However, ghostview shows the page un*erated.  If I
]use the -O option to dvips to try to generate a half-inch offset, then
]ghostview displays a blank page and nothing at all prints.

The problem is that tex is set up for A4, not letter. A4 is longer than letter and it comes off
the top.

Run the following (exactly as written with the line breaks)

echo '
% Make letter the default paper size
t letter' >>/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps

letter and it comes off

Quote:> the top.

Oh, sheesh, this problem. There is also a "dvips" option to correct this,
and a set of "texconfig" commands to change the TeX defaults stored in the
texmf settings.

And people at MIT wonder why no one likes TeX...