>> > I just tried doing your ps-while-acroread_printing suggestion
>> > and I see _no_ evidence of ghostscript.
>> Well, that's understandable if you have a Postscript printer. I
>> don't. :)
>> David E. Fox
ahhhhsoooooaa, sorry to be so dim, I thot Iwas missing something
essential from the very beginning of this thread.
One last suggestion:
you might try using acroread to do the conversion from pdf to ps
rather than use ghostscript directly on the pdf file.
From your previous reply:
> ghostscript is invoked to translate the pdf or ps
> to the bitmapped image for the target printer.
what follows is verbatim description from my
install guide for Acrobat3.01 INSTGUID.TXT
section on printing from command line--
seems far more complete than the instructions on the
help menu within acroread.
--------
Converting PDF to PostScript
----------------------------
You can convert PDF files to level 1 or level 2 PostScript files from
the
command line if you are running the X Window System. Command-line
printing
supports only the standard page size of 8.5 by 11 inches; it does not
support shrink-to-fit or scaling commands. If your document contains
custom page sizes (such as 11 by 14 inches), open the file in Acrobat
Reader and then print it or use Acrobat Exchange which has enhanced
command-line printing capabilities.
To convert a PDF file by piping it into Reader and then sending the
output
to a file, type the following:
:
% cat sample.pdf | acroread -toPostScript > sample.ps
To convert one or more PDF files, such as sample1.pdf and sample2.pdf,
into PostScript files and place these PostScript files into the
directory
<dir>, type the following:
% acroread -toPostScript sample1.pdf sample2.pdf <dir>
To convert a series of files expressed as both a PDF filename and a
corresponding PostScript filename (or pairs), type the following:
% acroread -toPostScript -pairs pdf_file_1 ps_file_1 ...
To convert a PDF file to a level 2 PostScript file, type the following:
% acroread -toPostScript -level2 pdf_file_1
-----
these command-line procedures might help printing
-- the main convenience is you don't have to get acroread
started up on your X screen
Jack
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