Howto: Seamless Postscript printing
Howto: Seamless Postscript printing
- Subject: Howto: Seamless Postscript printing
- From: Eric Dahlman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:20:21 -0600
Hi all,
A while back there was some talk about how to make X11 applications
easily print under Jaguar and I promised to send on my solution. I got
a free second so here it is.
The problem with printing Postscript is that the printing system (CUPS)
does not know how to convert a Postscript document into a PDF which is
what many OSX print drivers take as input. So I wrote a little filter
that uses ps2pdf from Ghostscript and the configuration file to tell
the printing system how to use it. Once the filter is installed then
you can send Postscript to lpr and print to your hearts content.
This is particularly nice because there is no need to install the
gimp-print printer drivers an you can just use the drivers you have
currently working on your printer.
You can grab the two little files you need and the directions from:
http://www1.twincitizen.net/~dahlman
Let me know if you have any problems!
-Eric
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