Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: JohnF Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10r71wjq9p81w$.ai9vifvcrqdx.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1435890581 19135 166.84.1.3 (3 Jul 2015 02:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:29:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2297 tlvp wrote: > For eventual distillation to PDF, I seek to produce PostScript files, > capturing the content of tabloid size color documents, by "printing" them, > in MS Windows, to a tabloid-capable PostScript printer on port FILE: . > > My quandary: use the printer driver for an HP Color LaserJet 8500-PS > (that's what I had been doing on pre-Win8.1 machines)? or for a similar > (but newer) 9500-PS (what I seem to have to do instead on Win8.1)? or are > there other PostScript printer drivers around producing better (and how so? > less obfuscated? more portable? smaller filesize?) PostScript output files? > > I may note that GhostView always burps once when fed one of my 8500-PS > files, complaining about the header lines; but it carries on gamely anyway. > And they distill just fine. 9500-PS-generated files, no such burps (yet). > > Thanks. Cheers, -- tlvp I'm not sure I understand your question/quandary, but when I had what I think is a similar problem, somebody suggested http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Poster which perfectly solved my problem. -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )