[geeks] How can people put up with this....

[Rob]

Why don't you just:

copy postscript_file.ps > LPT1

from a Windows Machine? If it's a PS printer it should work fine.

- Rob

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:

> I left my apartment today for an afternoon of flyering.  I had a
> staple gun, a box of extra staples, and my flyer, which I had made
> the night before, as a postscript file on a DOS floppy.
>
> I went to three print shops: A Sir Speedy, and two different Kinkos.
> All three of them could read my file, and had a postscript laser
> printer, but NOT ONE OF THEM was able to send the postscript file
> to the postscript printer.
>
> Nope, windows can't do that.
>
> Gotta have an application to open it, can't just send it.
>
> This file happens to use some rather esoteric (but legal!)
> postscript trickery, and Distiller can't cope with it.
> I going to try to rewrite the file such that the ghostscript
> gs2pdf utility can handle it. (It chokes on a different part
> than Distiller, one that should be easy to rewrite. The part
> that Distiller chokes on cannot be rewritten.)
>
> #$%@#$&^&@#^#$^#$%&#^*&*&%&%^$%@
>
> ------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- http://www.cca.org -------
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