[Novalug] slightly OT: how to print postscript files under Windows

[Kevin Cole]

On 9/25/07, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > List,
> >
> <snip>
> > In particular, how would you share a .ps file with a person who
> > only has access to a Windows machine? Can they print out .ps files?
> > Or is there another way to make a filled-in .pdf file accessible
> > to others?
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > Nino
>
> I am not sure if I completely understand your problem - but perhaps this
> link will be of some value:
>
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>
> and from there follow the GSview link for Windows
>
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

If I may... The problem, as I understand it, is he has a fillable PDF.
Upon filling it in, he cannot save it as a PDF, but wants to. Instead,
he prints it to a file, ending up with a Postscript file. Great for
Linux users, not so great for Windows users that he wishes to send to.
Attempting to turn it back into a PDF with ps2pdf didn't work.

I suggested either trying to find a way to print "raw" or "COPY
filename.ps LPT1:" at the DOS prompt as I think that used to work.

But there may be other, better ways.  Or did I miss something (either
in the problem or the other solutions offered)?
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