Re: Generating PDFs from XY 3.54

[marc@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Jon.

I have just downloaded GhostScript and GSViewer.
I'll have a look at them and see how it looks.

The files I'm dealing with have an odd style sheet on them.
They are updates to current legislation, and the PRN file used is called GALLEY.
PRN. It has (amongst other things...) a RM28, yet they print fine (about A5
sized pages)

I'll have to have a play with the PDF generation. I may have to look at re-doing
the style sheet.

Thanks very much for your assistance.

Regards

Marc



Quoting E J Inggs :

> Marc
>
> You can generate PDF files free of charge from a XyWrite 3 postscript
> printer driver print-to-file using GhostView as a graphic front end to
> Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.htm). The system is
> integrated into Robert and Carl's wonderful XyWWWeb.U2 for Xy4.
>
> You simply open the PS file in GhostView and then convert it to PDF.
> Your printer person should in fact be able to covert the PS file to PDF
> but you wouldn't be able to see the final product before you send it
> off. Viewing it in GhostView yourself would give you more final
> control.
>
> All the study material here at the University of South African is now
> printed from PDF files based on PS print-to-files, however, it is
> converted using full-blown Adobe Acrobat which is definitely not free.
>
> Regards
> Jon Inggs
>
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> >>>  2004/06/29 01:12:20 >>>
> Hello
>
> Does anyone have any idea how (or with what) I can create PDF files from
> XYWrite
> 3.54.
> Our printer has told us that if we can deliver our material to him in
> this
> format it will greatly reduce our costs. At the moment we deliver
> 'Printer-ready' copy (A5 pages printed one up, single sided on A4) which
> they
> then have to scan and then layup for printing.
>
> Any and all ideas most appreciated, thanks.
>
> Marc
>
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