Re: Postscript printing to pdf in Windows

["Paul Breeze" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC)]

Dear Edward

When you install Ghostscript it provides a printer that can be used in windows. I use RedMon with this Ghostscript printer to create a pdf, at the moment called pdftemp.ps, which is stored in the e:\temp directory. This part works perfectly. However PrintFilePrinter does not seem to pick it up. I have tried as you suggested below, moving the file somewhere else, stopping and restarting PrintFilePrinter and then moving the file back to the target directory. Nothing happens.

The file I am trying to view is attached.

Paul

On 30/01/2020 14:54, Edward Mendelson wrote:
Paul,

I read your message too quickly. There's no need to use a XyWrite driver
if you don't want to. Here's a way to use the PrintFilePrinter method to
emulate what you've got in Xy.

First, when you say you are printing to a Windows GhostScript printer,
what exactly do you mean? Does it use the RedMon driver or something
else? Anway, there�s no reason why my system should not work when a file
named PDFTEMP.PS goes into the watched folder. Could you please click on
the little printer icon that I put in the system tray, and click
Information to make sure that the system is in fact watching E:\TEMP?

Then, experiment this way. Remove the PDFTEMP.PS file from the watched
folder to your desktop. Exit and restart PrintFilePrinter. Check the
icon to make sure that it is watching E:\TEMP. Then drag the PDFTEMP.PS
file into E:\TEMP. It should print. If it doesn't, please send me the file.

Next, you can fairly easily set up a different Windows driver that does
what you're doing right now but with with my system.

Create a new Printer; name it something like PostScript to File. I'll
let you work out (with the help of the Internet - I'm not using Wiudows
7) the steps required to create the printer; it doesn't matter what
printer driver and port get selected, because you're going to change
those things after the printer is created.

Edit the properties of the printer, using the Advanced tab; select the
option to use a different driver; the one that seems to work best for me
is the Bullzip PDF Printer Driver (installed when you install the
invaluable BullZip PDF Printer; highly recommended; uses GhostScript).
Possibly any other straightforward PostScript driver should work. The
Microsoft PS driver doesn't work with XyWrite on my system; you'll need
something simpler like the BullZip Driver.

Then set the printer to output to a specific file, using the basic
technique here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2528405/how-to-print-to-file-without-user-intervention


Ignore the stuff about Generic/Text Only; what matters is creating a new
port and naming it E:\TEMP\PDFTEMP.PS.

Now, with PrintFilePrinter running, print from XyWrite to the new
Windows printer that you've created. Just tested successfully here.

Attachment: pdftemp.ps
Description: PostScript document