On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Laurie L Proud wrote: > I know P "print" will output a text file ect, but that's all I have > found within Arachne regarding printing, unless I change screen > resolution to 800X600 and enable the print toolbar and find a > "Postscript" option. What's that....
Until recently, I was using Word Perfect 8 for Linux to create all my invoices. (Invoices are now automatically created via mysql and php.) Anyway, my Lexmark E210 came out after WP8, so there was no driver. What to do? Export from WP as a postscript file, and then using lpr, print the *.ps. It was an extra step, but it did a beautiful job. When I created a form for the roastery, I also exported it as a postscript file (habit)... only to discover once I got to work, that Windoze doesn't natively (or at least easily) handle postscript files. Downloaded and installed ghostview for doze, and now Windoze 2000 at work can also print out postscript files. Bottom line, if Arachne can output the page as a postscript file, you can install Ghostview for DOS and print it out that way. It's available on LETMIS ;-) under the postscrp directory. Get gs403ini.zip, gs403dos.zip, and gs403fn1.zip (fonts). Matter of fact, I've stuck those at http://wizard.dyndns.org for a limited time... say til the end of the year... 693K, 797K, and 1,170K respectively. Seems there must be a lower resource way to do it, but that's the way I know how... btw, Linux lpr command is only 18K. Maybe it'd be worthwhile getting one of those Linux-on-a-CD distributions, boot from CD to Linux and print the *ps file that way... or maybe someone knows an lpr-like utility for DOS? -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
