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Printing PDFs with Ghostscript
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| ccieToBe 2001-10-25, 2:17 pm |
| I found this article yesterday while looking for a way to create a logical networked PDF printer without spending a lot of $$$. It describes how you can use Ghostscript to convert Postscript documents into PDFs. I tested it out by printing out a few different types of documents directly to a physical printer. After that I printed them (using an Apple printer driver since they all use Postscript) to a pseudo queue, converted the resulting Postscript flies to PDFs, opened them up, and printed them out. It worked great, looking at the two documents side by side I couldn't see any difference.
http://www.daemonnews.org/200012/html2pdf.html
Something really suprised me about all this, a one page document that took upabout about 2.3MB as a Postscript file shrunk down to 33K after the conversion to a PDF file. That's a nice conversion 
This article doesn't describe everything that needs to be done to create a networked PDF printer, but at least shows how this can be done manually. Now it's just a matter of creating script(s) to automate the conversion every time a document's printed. If anyone's interested, I'll post the script I come up with to accomplish this. | |
| TW2001 2001-10-26, 7:43 am |
| Schweet...
Im interested.
Just saw a couple IBM ads on the TV..
"eSERVERS Running Linux"....very schweeet! | |
| ccieToBe 2001-10-26, 8:24 am |
| Yeah, they're VERY nice. | |
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| IBM is moving to Linux Svr in great speed!!!
Watch Out Win2000 Svr, Haa
Anyone apply for the IBM training, it will be great job opportunity and good learning experience. But the price is a little too much $$$$ | |
| ccieToBe 2001-11-02, 12:49 pm |
| My boss decided he'd rather buy Adobe's software then have me spend time writing the script(s). I'll write these scripts on my own eventually, but it may be a while before I get around to it. |
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