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Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

From Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
Date 2015-10-13 04:20 +0200
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> I would like to send a document file (.tex or .dvi or .ps) as an email
> attachment to an associate so that he can print a copy and file it.
> There is no need for him to edit the file. But my associate is running
> Windows, and does not have a Postscript printer.

Use ps2pdf or dvipdf or better, pdflatex, or even better, xelatex.

> Is there a fool-proof solution to this need? I have considered asking
> my associate to install ghostscript, and I have considered purchasing
> a Postscript printer for him. I do not know which Windows (XP, Vista,
> or 7) he is running.

Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the
advantages of the PDF specification.

[It's also probably time to move away from pdflatex to xelatex or
some other LaTeX engine with real utf8 support.]

-- 
Don Armstrong                      http://www.donarmstrong.com

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print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 04:10 +0200
  Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-10-13 04:20 +0200
    Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 06:00 +0200
      Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 14:20 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Joseph Loo <jloo20111002@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 14:30 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 19:40 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Joseph Loo <jloo20111002@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 04:40 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 20:40 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 21:10 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 21:40 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:00 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-13 23:00 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 23:50 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-14 00:30 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:40 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-13 22:00 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 21:50 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:00 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 09:20 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 23:50 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:30 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:30 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:40 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 00:40 +0200
      Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-10-13 16:50 +0200
  Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 04:30 +0200
    Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 06:20 +0200
      Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 06:20 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 07:50 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-13 09:40 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 11:20 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-14 04:00 +0200
    Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-13 09:30 +0200

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