Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-29 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: I just checked out the HP site, and it looks as if they don't make their own Mac drivers any more. Instead they say that you should use the Apple Laserwriter 8 driver along with the appropriate HP printer description file. Which is all fine and dandy except that it

RE: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-29 Thread Richard L Walker
A couple sites with information on this are: Producing PDF Files Without Using Adobe Acrobat: http://www.jps.net/bygrace/general/pdf.html and Free PDF Home Page http://over.to/freepdf although I think the last URL was given in an earlier discussion (as complex?) The html2ps site at

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-28 Thread Jack Campin
if you have an HP Laserjet 6P, the printer driver can create pdf files directly. [...] I haven't looked to see, but you should be able to download the driver from Hewlitt Packard's site. I just tried and it looks like there aren't any Mac or Unix drivers on their site - Windows and OS/2 only.

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-27 Thread Lewis Jones
Dear Jim, Many thanks for this excellent advice, as well as for your excellent abc2win package. Any other tips which you have will be thankfully received. Best wishes from a grateful registered user. Lewis Jones. --- Jim Vint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drivers are built in for

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-27 Thread Lewis Jones
This sounds great, but I have a problem. Guided by Jim Vint's recent post, I have used my Windows 98 disc to install a "HP Laserjet 6P/6MP - Postscript" as a dumb printer. This does exactly what Jim said it would do. Namely, it produces postscript files. But I cannot find the option to print

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-27 Thread Phil Taylor
Lewis Jones wrote: This sounds great, but I have a problem. Guided by Jim Vint's recent post, I have used my Windows 98 disc to install a "HP Laserjet 6P/6MP - Postscript" as a dumb printer. This does exactly what Jim said it would do. Namely, it produces postscript files. But I cannot find

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-25 Thread Phil Taylor
How on earth do you create those pdf documents? [...] GhostScript does not support bookmarks and other fancy PDF functions, but it does make good basic PDF documents from postscript files. The problem for most Windows and MAcintosh users is to get postscript files in the first place If you

RE: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-21 Thread Richard L Walker
That is exactly what I use to send the postscript files to the printer. Free, and it works. "Richard L Walker"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 USA -Original Message- From: On Behalf Of Toby Rider Ghostscript.. Richard L Walker wrote: Thanks everybody. I just

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-19 Thread Frank Nordberg
Lewis Jones wrote: ... However, on the question of how to produce publishable quality sheet music via the creation of .ps and .pdf files, you might care to read my little piece at: http://www.tradsong.freeserve.co.uk/Lewis1.htm ... I posted my thoughts some time ago, with a plea to

[abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-16 Thread Frank Nordberg
Richard L Walker wrote: How on earth do you create those pdf documents? I know this isn't really an ABC subject, but since PDF is becoming the standard format for tranfering a huge variety of different documents, it might be of interest. Laura has already answered how these particular PDF

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-16 Thread Laura Conrad
"Frank" == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank That's why most people today seem to use GhostScript, a Frank free postscript reader available for all major Frank platforms. Which is also what I did; ps2pdf is part of the ghostscript package. Frank The problem for