On Wed, 24 May 2000, Niclas Sodergard DC wrote:
> Well, I'm not the author because we have a guy here who is fluent in
> postscript. In fact he probably speaks postscript in his sleep.
> But from what I know about the program we add a header and a footer to the
> postscript before we send it off to a printer. The header contains a few
> functions that instruct the printer to send the data back through the same
> channel. I'm sorry that I can't be off more help but it's really not my
> field of expertise.
I have used the exact same procedure for something else. I've got a linux
box that runs samba and exports 3 printers. A windows machine uses those
printers to print powerpoint presentations. On the linux box, I get the
postscript output (from the windows machine), "massage" it a little (read
add header and footer), extract pages as pictures, and save them. The box
has 4 video cards, 3 of which connected to 3 big monitors in foyer. A
deamon cycles through the pictures on their corresponding monitor. Works
pretty well.
All that said to prove that I'm familiar with the concept ;-)
Now, only if I could get a hold of those postscript programs (header and
footer as you've put them),........ ('hint', 'hint' :-).
> BTW, if you think Perl is hairy don't look at postscript :-).
I love perl; but postscript is a different story (as you've pointed out).
cheers,
Hossein
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