Print as PDF

Post #37,254 by inthane-chan 5/2/02 6:00:59 PM Reply	Print as PDF I dl'ed SO 1.0, installed, and there is no Print as PDF option that I can find. :P Of course, this is Win2k, so there might be some issue that they couldn't get around... "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #37,282 by kmself 5/2/02 9:25:41 PM Reply	Navigation Print (icon or File -> print) Select "Print to file" In the file-selection dialog, select "PDF" in the "File Type" combo box. That's it. Got that under Windows? `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #37,358 by inthane-chan 5/3/02 2:07:18 PM Reply	Nope. In the file type selection box, the only option is "all". "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #37,391 by folkert 5/3/02 6:09:18 PM Reply	Print as PDF in Win32 Solution err workaround Well it comes getting a PDF from Windows without Adobe... it is as simple as having a Linux samba server hanging around. First, install a generic PS printer nearly any PS printer should work, low or high functionality. Make sure it prints to a file. Second, make sure you have a mapped drive to a samba server that has GhostScript on it. Third, print ANY document from ALMOST any application in wondows to the new printer and to the a file on the mapped drive (typically my "Home" Directory I use) Fourth, SSH to your linux box, locate your file, run ps2pdf included with the ghostscript packages installed on your Linux machine. i.e.: `ps2pdf foo.ps foo.pdf` Give you a straight PDF. Not locked down or anything... so you can modify it if you want to. Or use some of the features in GhostScript to make it read only. `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!`
Post #37,451 by pwhysall 5/4/02 2:36:05 AM Reply	Gross, dude. Yeah, I can really see me getting the secretaries to do that. And can you IMAGINE trying to explain this to a project manager? Can you? :-) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #37,512 by folkert 5/4/02 6:01:25 PM Reply	YEah... Yeah... tis not optimal But, I don't want to setup a Ghostscript Ripper Deamon on my W2K box... it is just easier for me. Granted, most secretaries have a tought time printing Long-Edge Duplexing... let alone something like this. But as they saying goes... there is ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat. I am looking into 2 really nasty things right now. One, getting Moz to be the System Shell. Two, Compiling GhostScript on Win2K (by myself not some binaries you D/L) so I can start playing with just the thing to knock on Adobe's niche. Oh well. At least there IS a workaround... but tell me, when has ANY workaround been easy?? `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!`
Post #37,456 by altmann 5/4/02 4:26:50 AM Reply	Or use Redmon and keep it local [link\|http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/\|Redmon] lets you redirect the printer driver output to a program of your choice. -- Chris Altmann

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