Edenyard wrote:
>
> I don't think that I'd bother any more at all with trying to
> use Acrodos. I went through all of this months ago and I found
> that most 'modern' .PDF chip data sheets, etc., simply wouldn't
> work with it.
>
> I ended up getting a version of Ghostscript. Now - its
> documentation is about as clear as mud, but after hours of
> fiddling, I can report that it will print out many more .PDF
> sheets than would Acrodos.
>
> A very handy by-product is that it will also print out
> postscript format to an ordinary laserjet, so we can AT LAST get
> decent print-outs from Arachne mail messages, web pages and so
> on. I use it by EXPORTING a .PS file using Alt-P in Arachne.
> Outside Arachne, I then call up Ghostscript to print the .PS
> file generated by Arachne. There is a suggestion that Arachne
> can invoke Ghostscript directly but this uses some sort of .DGI
> file, about which I know nothing - anyone else??
Hi Ron;
If I recall, that dgi is supposed to invoke a download of Ghostscript
- but I could be mistaken. I might just load up Ghostscript and try it.
In a related vein, I got the idea that Win 3.1 printman.exe might be able
to run stand-alone because it sometimes hangs on as the last task when I
exit Windows. This thing is only 43kb - about the size of something that
I would expect to be able to print graphics to a laserjet.
Does ANYONE know how to get around the "This program requires Microsoft
Windows" message and use this thing outside of Windows ?
- Clarence Verge
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