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Re: Sending postscript file to printer
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Re: Sending postscript file to printer


  • Subject: Re: Sending postscript file to printer
  • From: Joshua See <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:24:18 -0500

On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 04:13 US/Central, Emma Glaisher wrote:

on 13/6/03 6:44 am, Emmanuel at email@hidden wrote:

At 9:38 AM +0000 12/06/03, Emma Glaisher wrote:
Both issues will most probably be solved if you install GhostScript, which
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!) ???
I suspect there's a better way, but in OS X you don't need to install anything extra to do this. See the manual page for enscript.

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

"man" mean manual, the help system from OS X's command line side. Just open a terminal window and type "man commandname" to learn about a command or "man -k keyword" to search for a topic.
--
Sincerely,
Joshua See
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