Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!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: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 02:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <10r71wjq9p81w$.ai9vifvcrqdx.dlg@40tude.net> <1il0f31mdg8o9$.1pswg9vjb1y57.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1436064077 8849 166.84.1.3 (5 Jul 2015 02:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 02:41:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2303 tlvp wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 01:15:44 +0000 (UTC), JohnF wrote: > >> 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. > > Resizing is not my focus. In psutil terms, I'm after a *-to-ps service, > where * might be .doc or .rtf or .jpg or .png or .pdd or .html or ... , > and size is to be carefully preserved (not increased or reduced). > > And I've pretty much found one in Windows PRINT API, if I print "to FILE:" > using a suitable PostScript printer. > > What's "suitable" mean? In my case, capable of dealing with sheets of size > up to 17" x 11" (landscape tabloid, aka ledger, size). > > My environment: Windows currently (not Mac, nor OS/2, nor Linux). > > My question: is it immaterial which tabloid PS printer driver I use? Are > the drivers for HP CLJ 8500, for HP CLJ 9500, as good as any other? Or is > there a driver for some fancy Agfatronic, or Apple, or Fiery, or IBM color > laser printer that's far better (and, if so, in what way)? > > Thanks for the opportunity to clarify my requirement. Cheers, -- tlvp Sorry for my misunderstanding -- I totally didn't get what you were after, but now I get it (I think I get it:) after your clarification. And I have zero explicit knowledge, but sounds to me like that printer driver can't be doing much more than putting a postscript wrapper around more-or-less binary/raster/whatever-formatted content. If you can google the general postscript code for that, you can probably control the wrapper parameters more directly, and get output exactly to your liking. -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )