Re: Generating PDFs from XY 3.54

[marc@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks very much Harry.
You're a Gentleman and a Scholar (and there's not many of us left!!)

Regards

Marc.

Quoting Harry Binswanger :

>
> >Hello
> >
> >Does anyone have any idea how (or with what) I can create PDF files
> from
> >XYWrite
> >3.54.
>
> You need PDFCreator. I have version 1.5. Get if from:
> http://www.cadkas.de/
>
> This program converts from PostScript files into PDF files. So first you
>
> have to get Xy to make a PostScript file as intermediary. No problem:
> you
> set the contents of the file POST47.PRN as a printer table (I don't
> quite
> remember how to do this in Xy3--I use Xy4). Get the file from:
>
> http://www.xywrite.com/printer/xy4_printer.htm
>
> To operate it, open, in Xy, the file you want to convert, making sure
> it's
> using the PrinterTable you've got set upf with POST47.PRN. Then give the
>
> command TYF. This will produce the file FO.TMP, a postscript file.
>
> Open PDFCreator and figure out how to work its clumsy,
> Danish-into-English-translated interface. Note that if you browse
> looking
> for FO.TMP (the file to use as input for the conversion) you must set
> the
> thing to show All files (*.*)
>
> The last step is to hit the big GO button on PDFCreator. It may take a
> few
> seconds, but it works!
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>