Dear Edward
Thanks. I will give it a try.
I have also been playing with Ghostscript and GhostPCL to see if there
is a way of copying what happens in VdosPlus with XY4 under XyWin and
OTVDM. With the former, I can command "TY-Enter" on the command line of
XY4 and the current file appears in my PDF viewer.
With XyWin, so far, I have been able to set up a Ghostscript printer and
use REDMON to redirect the output to ghostscript which writes to a pdf
file after I have selected the name and location. However I cannot find
a way to direct the pdf output from Ghostscript directly to the viewer.
You seem to be able to manage that with GhostPCL (I think) but it is
beyond my ability.
Paul
On 29/01/2020 15:05, Edward Mendelson wrote:
Dear Paul,
That is exactly how my latest version works. Set the output printfile in
XyWin to something like C:\TEMP\PDFTEMP.PCL (or whatever extension is
suitable - see the web page or the Information popup from my program's
tray icon), and the result will be a file in your Windows %TEMP% folder
named something like "tmp-20200129123412'. This will open in your PDF
reader; print it or forget about it. I don't try to delete the file from
the %TEMP% folder, which would be impractical, but I suppose I could
automatically delete all such files more than one or two days old.
For the sake of anyone new to this terminology: %TEMP% means the current
user's temporary folder, typically something like
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp (I'm writing that from memory so
it could be wrong; you can find the exact location by opening a cmd
window and entering CD %TEMP%).