Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 29 Sep 2003 2:33 am, Merlin Zener wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] Install Acrobat. It's on the disks, and it gives you very good control of printing, including scaled printing. what do I do when rpmdrake doesn't find

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 10:44 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >Anne > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /root/Desktop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# ls > 221915gw.pdf > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# pdf2ps 221915gw.pdf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# ls > 221915gw.pdf > 221915gw.ps > > So that worked, OK, >

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 8:30 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Have you tried pdf2ps ? Anne Well, I've got a /usr/bin/pdf2ps , but it's not a graphical app, least I don't think so, Guess someone will have to coach me on how to use it on the CL ? John

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 2:33 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > [...snip] > > > > Install Acrobat. It's on the disks, and it gives you very good > > control of printing, including scaled printing. > > what do I do when rpmdrake doesn't find it? > I searched

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 2:33 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > [...snip] > > > > Install Acrobat. It's on the disks, and it gives you very good > > control of printing, including scaled printing. > > what do I do when rpmdrake doesn't find it? > I searched

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread Merlin Zener
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > [...snip] > > Install Acrobat. It's on the disks, and it gives you very good > control of printing, including scaled printing. > what do I do when rpmdrake doesn't find it? I searched in files, names, and descriptions, with "all packages" selec

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 8:30 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 6:25 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>The printoff was fair quality,not best, even though I chose my > >> best driver, still it works. > >> > >>I am guessing that xpdf then is a pdf to postscript

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 6:25 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: The printoff was fair quality,not best, even though I chose my best driver, still it works. I am guessing that xpdf then is a pdf to postscript conversion programme, as well as a pdf viewer, and that the converted file

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 4:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 3:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files > >> > >> > >>I click in the file Icon, and , > >>KGhostView displays the file just fine to

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael Scottaline wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:11:53 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files So how do I print .pdf files in Mandrake 9.1 Try using xpdf. It will convert the .pdf to a.ps

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 3:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files I click in the file Icon, and , KGhostView displays the file just fine to read, but when I come to print it off, Printing document , filtering print dat

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:11:53 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files > >So how do I print .pdf files in Mandrake 9.1 Try using xpdf. It will convert the .pdf to a.ps file and then print from gs. I'm sure

Re: [newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 3:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files > > > I click in the file Icon, and , > KGhostView displays the file just fine to read, but when I come to > print it off, > > Printing document , > filtering print data, >

[newbie] How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files

2003-09-28 Thread John Richard Smith
How do I get M9.1 to print .PDF files I click in the file Icon, and , KGhostView displays the file just fine to read, but when I come to print it off, Printing document , filtering print data, Warning: file format is not directly supported. Do you want KDE to covert