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Re: Postscript printing to pdf in Windows

Dear Paul,
I have not used XyWin for printing, and I print and format my XyWrite copy normally in a typesetting program (Ventura, Quark, etc.). 
However, your tribulations made me try to print via OTVDM XyWin. Being 
an old Acrobat guy, I chose the PS to Distiller method.

First, in XyWin, I selected "File, Printer setup, XyWrite Driver..., 
Add" and post13.prn from XW\printers folder, set it as LPT1 with the 
name "Postscript" and loaded it. Status line shows it as current printer.

Then, I chose "Print" with the option "to File" [enter], entered MY.PS 
into the "Print to File" dialog.

Lastly, selected MY.PS from DOCS folder, doubleclicked it, and, voilà, I 
got a distilled MY.PDF (with Acrobat Distiller installed, GhostScript 
needs suitable batch files for this).


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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Dear Edward
OK.  I have installed PrintFilePrinter now and set it to watch E:\temp. 
I have XW printing to a Ghostscript printer which redirects the output 
to Ghostscript which generates a ps file called pdftemp.ps.  This file 
is generated in E:\temp but it does not appear to be intercepted by 
PrintFilePrinter and sent to my viewer.  So far as I can see nothing 
actually happens.  I have also tried generating a pdf file called 
pdftemp.ps and also called pdftemp.pdf.  This latter can be viewed with 
my viewer to confirm that the Ghostscript part of the system is working.


Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Paul

On 29/01/2020 20:05, Edward Mendelson wrote:
Paul,

I had set the minimum version as Windows 8; I've now changed that to
Windows 7. Please feel free to download and try again. I haven't tested
under Windows 7 (or 8), but I see no reason why it shouldn't work.

(And I deeply hope this mailing list will not take this as a cue to go
off-topic on the subject of Windows versions...)