Re: Sending postscript file to printer
Re: Sending postscript file to printer
- Subject: Re: Sending postscript file to printer
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:44:33 +0200
At 9:38 AM +0000 12/06/03, Emma Glaisher wrote:
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I'm writing a folder action which will do various things to files added to a
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folder. I'm stuck on the first thing - the file will be postscript, and I
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want to print it. I've tried 'print' and 'move to item "XRX_0000AA5E0824" '
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and neither works.
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PS I will also want to distill the postscript file to make a pdf and print
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that, but I can't think about that till I've got the first thing working!
Both issues will most probably be solved if you install GhostScript, which includes "gs" (should be able to send ps to printers) and "ps2pdf".
OMM, to get the "man" for these commands, I have to run:
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do shell script "man -M /usr/local/man gs (or ps2pdf)"
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Emmanuel
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