Re: Capturing a PostScript printout on another PC

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From: Don Lancaster
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:25

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pinkpanther@ntelos.net wrote:
> I am looking for some hardware or software that will allow me to
> capture a PostScript printout that is being sent over a network
> (JetDirect).  After the capturing the printout, it would be stored for
> later viewing.  I want to view the printout on a CRT not print it to
> paper.  I would want to keep 50 to 100 historical printouts, then they
> could be deleted.
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry
> 

And the problem with distilling the PostScript file with Acrobat or 
using GhostScript is...?

Actually, very little PostScript is sent to printers these days.
More often than not, Acrobat or Ghostscript works through a printer driver.

Undoing the driver commands back into PostScript could be horrendously 
difficult.

-- 
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics   3860 West First Street  Box 809  Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: don@tinaja.com

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

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