> From: "Simons, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:11:41 -0700 > Subject: RE: MusixTex & PMX for Windows > [...] But in principle ghostview could serve for printing to any > windows printer. I must say, though, I haven't had any luck getting it to > do that...it's print menus look and act differently from normal windows > programs. Although this problem is a little bit off-topic in this list I'll answer it because e.g. http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores is mainly based by scores typeset with MusiXTeX and stored as PS-file. Yes, the print menu of GSVIEW is different from normal windows print menus. First there is the possibility that you do have a PS-printer. Then you may cross "Postscript Printer" with the effect that ghostscript simply copies the file to the selected printer. It'sl the same as if you "COPY /B FILE.PS LPT1" in a DOS-Box ifgsview/ the PS-printer is connected to LPT1. The next possibility is to select a "device"-driver which corresponds to the printer you have. Gsview/ghostscript offers a lot of such device drivers (e.g. deskjet, epson, laserjet, ljet2p, ljet4, ...). These device drivers convert the PS-input into the printer language and send the output to the selected printer. The third possibility is to use a special "device"-driver "mswinpr2". It something like a virtual MS-Windows-printer. So the device driver converts the PS-input into such commans, which are under- stood by the Windows printer interface. Next MS-Windows is responsible to generate that data which is understood by the specific printer. This third possibility works with most printers supported by MS-Windows. The advantage of the 2nd possibility is that more printer specific features can be selected. Gsview's print menu is used too for some very specific device-drivers e.g. pdf-write, which may be used to convert a PS-file into PDF-files or bmp... which may be used to convert PS-files into bmp-images or pswrite which may be used to convert PDF-files displayed by gsview(!) into PS-files You find more information about this topic in the file devices.htm which is part of the ghostscript distribution normally in the directory named GS5.50. In earlier versions this file was named device.txt or maybe device.ps. Hope this hilft -- Werner
