On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:22:56 +0200 (MET DST)
Uli Mayring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rOn Wed, 13 Jun 2001, H. Whitlock wrote:
>
> > I'm a newbie just beginning to pull together a transformation system (and
> > later, dynamic web component)for my organization. I have started small,
> > working with XSL to create only HTML and PDF formats. Today a coworker asked
> > me about generating Postscript. I blithely answered, "of course," thinking
> > that PS comes before PDF. However, now that I think about it, I'm not sure
> > if Cocoon's transformation tools can do this for me. We don't need something
> > formed for the browser or Adobe viewer, but rather something to go straight
> > to the printer without that interim processing. Any ideas?
>
> Can't be done out of the box. You either have to write an equivalent to
> fop, only for generating PostScript instead of PDF (but how to deal with
> output device specific information??) or you convert the PDF put out by
> fop to PostScript with some tool (GhostScript, Acrobat Reader etc.)
Most linux dists come with pstools, which include a pdf2ps executable. You can always
use that.
Sergio
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