Re: Sending postscript file to printer
Re: Sending postscript file to printer
- Subject: Re: Sending postscript file to printer
- From: Emma Glaisher <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:13:17 +0000
on 13/6/03 6:44 am, Emmanuel at email@hidden wrote:
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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!
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Both issues will most probably be solved if you install GhostScript, which
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includes "gs" (should be able to send ps to printers) and "ps2pdf".
You mean AppleScript is not capable of dumping a postscript file into a
desktop printer? (A postscript printer at that!) ???
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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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My heart sinks. I am such a novice I don't even know what "man" means. I
guess I'll just tell my colleague to do it all manually as usual. I've
written really fiddly scripts for Quark that do great things, then when all
I want to do is print a file, it can't be done.... SIGH
Thanks anyway,
Emma
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