Dear Kari
I have set up Ghostscript to print a file directly to PDF whenever I use
"TY" from the command line of select print from the menus. I am using
a Windows Ghostscript printer and it works very smoothly. However what
I cannot do with this is sent the pdf directly to my viewer. Of course,
I can open the pdf in the viewer easily enough, but that is a couple of
extra key strokes which I don't need in VdosPlus. I am trying to find a
way to emulate the latter with XyWin under otvdm.
Paul
On 30/01/2020 14:20, Kari Eveli wrote:
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
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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...)