From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 8 14:24:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F083F14E53 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from max.alleswirdgelber (uzs106@ascend-tk-p211.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.211]) by f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA27730; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:23:41 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by max.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA00761; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:04:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:04:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@max.alleswirdgelber To: Alex Bulygin Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing Mac Graphics via Ghostscript on an old Epson LQ 500 ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, thanks for the reply ! I had allready forgotten the question... On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Alex Bulygin wrote: > > I think I have a lpr client software, that runs on my Mac. Printing into > > postscript file should work, I once made some experiments with printing > > on Windows (and ghostript->acrobat reader). But I remember from Windows, > > that printing with ghostript olene didnt work, I had to convert the files > > also to *.pdf. > > Its most better to prepare files in PDF format using free plug-in > from Adobe. Its PDF Writer and may be used as Liser Writer driver and > bee installed in chooser on Mac. User just print to PDF writer device and > get PDF file. It smaller two-three times, crossplatform ant etc. > > By the way, > Ghost* exists for Mac too. It can convert .ps files and .pdf viceverse. I fear, those tools dont work on this very old 68000 motorola SE. But I'll look for a laser writer driver replacement, maybe this works. Best wishes from Bonn, Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message