Re: printing with postghst (was U2 version 119)

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Robert,

These instructions are great. With a minor tweak or two, you
could boilerplate them and just ship them out any time anyone
wants to set up TYP printing. (I edited out where you grind your
teeth.)



postghst.zip contains THREE files. It
includes POSTFONT.TST. The date of POSTGHST.PRN should be 9/6/2005:
 http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/postghst.zip



Your SETTINGS.DFL says that POSTGHST.PRN is in C:\XY4,
So that's where it *must* be! MOVE it to C:\XY4.


Use UNZIP. Open a DOS window in C:\XY4. POSTGHST.ZIP
should be *located in C:\XY4*. Command:
 UNZIP POSTGHST.ZIP

Responds "UNZIP is not recognized as an internal or external
command, operable program or batch file." So I resorted to using
PKUNZIP from Windows Explorer and this time it worked.



Make sure all three files exist in C:\XY4: POSTGHST.PRN, POSTGHST.TPL,
POSTFONT.TST.

The basic procedure for printing with U2's PostGhost is outlined at
 HELP TYP
I summarize it below:


This is really helpful.


Download and install Ghostscript and GSview:
 ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs853/gs853w32.exe
and
 ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv47w32.exe
Just execute the two EXEs and they will install themselves. Execute
gs853w32.exe first, then gsv47w32.exe. Technically, you don't need GSview if
you're only printing, but it's a very handy file to have for other purposes, so
install it too.

Next, go into XYWWWEB.REG and find the stanza called "[Ghostscript]". Enter
the fully-qualified d:\path\filespec for GSWIN32C.EXE in the variable named
"Ghostscript_EXE_Win32=". It should be something like, I dunno, maybe
"Ghostscript_EXE_Win32=C:\PROGRA~1\GS\GS8.53\BIN\GSWIN32C.EXE".
Do the same thing for "GSView_Win32=C:\PROGRA~1\GS\GSVIEW\GSVIEW32.EXE" or
whatever it actually is.
Remember: these must both be entered as 8.3 filespecs, no Long File Names!


Suggestion: include in the instructions the information that
XYWWWEB.REG doesn't express the tildes in the paths above (and
there's no point trying to hammer the tildes in, since TYP
 will then return the information that Windows can't
find c: \Progra~~~~~~~~~~1\etc.)



Fully-qualified (the whole schmeer, from "C:" to the filename). One easy way
to get the 8.3 ShortFileName is to navigate in a XyWrite dir display to the
file e.g. GSWIN32C.EXE, put your cursor on the file, then command on CMline:
SFN. The full short d:\path\filename will appear in a PRompt.

Now go into Control Panel ==> Printers and make sure that your Brother 210C is
the *default* Windows printer. Right click on it and set it as Default.

In REG again, make sure that the line saying "GsPrnDev=mswinpr2 default" is the
*only* GsPrnDev= line (if you have more than one) that is enabled (i.e. doesn't
have a semi-colon in front of it).

CAll POSTFONT.TST into a XyWrite window. On your setup (in SETTINGS.DFL),
Judith, POSTGHST.PRN is the first of your listed printer files, so command on
the CMline: >  SETP 1



You should run this instruction in STARTUP.INT so that it executes
automatically, always, hands-off, when you launch.


How? What? Where?


With POSTFONT.TST in the current window, command:
 TYP

Wait a few seconds


More like a minute.

and POSTFONT.TST will print on paper. It will display the

available fonts and font names; you can identify them in the Format ==>
Typeface menu because they have an up-and-down arrow after their names
(BOOKMAN, CHARTER, TIMES, etc -- the "standard 35" Postscript fonts). When you
print your own files (always using the TYP command), embed one or more
of these fonts in your file --


 or make one of them XyWrite's default font.



Again, how? where?


If you want just to display a file as it looks under Ghostscript, but without
printing it, instead of TYP you should command:
 POSTGHOST



(Try it!)

Glitch? On files of my own, the time lag between ordering TYP
 and the beginning of printing ranges from 90 seconds to 3
minutes for files ranging from 6KB to 10KB. During this wait, all
other programs are pretty much hung (forget a quick hand of
spider solitaire during the wait or checking to see if any new
emails have arrived--you can't go there). Can something be done
to close the gap between order and execution?


Glitch? Once begun, printing stops for a second or so and starts
up again, maybe two or three times during the printing of two pages.


Otherwise, it's really, REALLY nice. Thanks!

Judith Davidsen



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Robert Holmgren
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