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From: John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How can I save a PostScript with a PostScript printer?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 03:26:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.lang.postscript,
> Jean-Pierre Coulon  <coulon@cacas.pam.obs-nice.fr> wrote:
>> If I have a PostScript printer installed, with Acrobat Reader I can say 
>> Print to a file when I print something with this printer, to obtain a 
>> PostScript file.
>> 
>> But Word, Excel and Powerpoint do not offer the Print to file option.
>> How can I work around?
> 
> What OS? On Unix (eg Linux and Mac) you can -- with difficulty -- "tee"
> off a copy of the Postscript sent to the printer. On Windows, I do not
> know.
<<snip>>

On linux ("on windows, I do not know"), you can probably use
ImageMagick convert, https://imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
e.g.,  bash$  convert myfile.pdf myfile.ps
It also converts between many other formats, but you'll have
to check whether it works for your input file's format.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )