Re: configure Xywrite for USB printer?

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:


If you are NOT using XP, it's difficult--best to move the file (by copy
and paste if there's no formatting) to a Windows program (e.g., Notepad).


Actually, according to what Robert said when we discussed and tested
this a while back, it should work in W2K too. It's only the 9x flavors
that won't let you map a USB port on the same PC (they'll let you do it
over a network) to an LPT port. And of course PhostGhost works anywhere
for any kind of printer. Harry's expedient will only work if the printer
is HP (or, of course, Postscript or Epson ESC/P, but they don't make
them any more) compatible. If you go for PostGhost, you have to get
Alladin Ghostscript (freeware) and R. Lang's Gsview (nagware, but worth
every cent).


Do Xysearch for TYP and Postghost; I attach Robert's most recent (I
think) explanation of setting things up, slightly edited to remove some
comments meant for the recipient's unique situation:


>>
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!
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 [the printer
you want to use] 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.

[Ca SETTINGS.DFL or Startup.int, whichever has your PP table in it,
usually at the end. Make sure that Postghst.prn is listed as one of the
printers. If not, add it, according to the pattern of the others. Note
its number.]

Command on the CMline:
 SETP N
[Where N is the number of Postghst.prn.]
You should run this instruction in STARTUP.INT so that it executes
automatically, always, hands-off, when you launch.

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

Wait a few seconds 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.

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!)
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End of RH's post; items in [] are my additions.


--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx