Hi
Have you been reading the thread about generating pdf files?
Would you be prepared to share your knowledge of pdf to create a script that
could export
text and images to create a pdf file?
Thanks for any help.
Regards
Monte
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> andu :
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> > Talking to the printer is the easy part, generating "on the fly" PS or
> > PDF would imply MC has a built-in interpreter for that language. On UNIX
> > platforms there is Ghostscript which is a "free" PS interpreter (and it
> > sucks) and the only way to print more then text, but licensing anything
> > from Adobe must be a fortune.
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> Sorry, but there's a misunderstanding here : the only thing I need is a MC
> feature that allows me to talk to the printer.
> As for generating PostScript on the fly, I will take care of that
> myself when
> coding my scripts (as I master both PS and MetaTalk).
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> But this feature isn't reserved to ppl who master PostScript : as I wrote
> before,
> you can imagine to have various ready-made PS of PDF files (made in other
> applications) that you can read and then download to the printer for great
> printings...
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> Hope things are more clear now...
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> JB
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