Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: JohnF Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 01:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <10r71wjq9p81w$.ai9vifvcrqdx.dlg@40tude.net> <1il0f31mdg8o9$.1pswg9vjb1y57.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1435972544 2536 166.84.1.3 (4 Jul 2015 01:15:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 01:15:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2301 tlvp wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:29:41 +0000 (UTC), JohnF wrote: > >> 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, thanks, but I don't need to split tabloid (or larger) ps or pdf files > into letter-size "bite-sized" chunks -- I just need to generate full-scale > ps files, so that I may distlll them to full-scale PDFs to transmit to a > commercial PoD service for printing full-size. > Your offer is interesting, tho', for other reasons. Thanks. Cheers. -- tlvp Maybe psresize from the psutils package, http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/psutils.htm (note that poster can also just resize). Or maybe one of the other psutils? -- still not precisely sure what you want. -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )