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Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript

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tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 02:29:41 +0000 (UTC), JohnF wrote:
> 
>> tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> 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 )

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Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-02 21:52 -0400
  Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-07-03 02:29 +0000
    Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-03 20:11 -0400
      Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-07-04 01:15 +0000
        Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-04 01:24 -0400
          Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2015-07-05 02:41 +0000
            Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-05 01:13 -0400
  Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2015-07-03 11:48 -0600
    Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-03 20:22 -0400
  Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Wilfried <Wilfried@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-07 13:14 +0200
    Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-07 20:48 -0400
      Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2015-07-08 17:05 +0200
        Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-08 20:19 -0400
      Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Wilfried <Wilfried@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-09 14:59 +0200
        Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Wilfried <Wilfried@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-09 16:50 +0200
          Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-09 18:33 -0400
            Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript Wilfried <Wilfried@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-10 13:26 +0200
              Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-10 21:16 -0400
        Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-09 18:36 -0400
    Re: Q.: Windows -- converting a tabloid file to PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-07-08 20:48 -0400

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