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How to print directly to a pdf-printer

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Name: Jarrett Jones
Date: October 28, 2001 at 15:42:11 Pacific
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When you install Adobe Acrobat in Windows, it adds a printer that you can print directly to which creates a pdf in a specified directory. Is this possible with the unix version? Is it possible with ghostscript? If so, give me a few clues send me a link.

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Name: Reinier Post
Date: November 27, 2001 at 08:34:33 Pacific
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If you work on the command line, it's easy.

You can use Adobe's distiller (the 'distill' command) to convert a PostScript document foo.ps to PDF format like this:

distill foo.ps foo.pdf

Now foo.pdf is the PDF document.

The sme thing can be done using Ghostscript, which, unlike Adobe's distiller, is free. It normally comes with an xecutable 'pdf2ps' that is used in the same way as distill:

pdf2ps foo.ps foo.pdf

If you work in a GUI, you can create something on the GUI to todo this for you, but there are many GUIs for Unix so I can't tell you how to do it.

Note that this has nothing to do with a printer. If you want the PDF to be printed, that can be arranged too, but you didn't ask for that.


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