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Re: CREATING POSTSCRIPT FILE FROM MS WORD

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From: Tim Keitt
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:46
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In article <1992Nov2.011037.15179@datamark.co.nz> david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:
>In article <1992Oct30.224734.511@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
>>
>>Hi,
>>Does anyone know how to create a postscript file from MS Word for Windows?
>>(I mean it should create a postscript file instead of printing a doc.) I
>
>Simple.  Select the Printer Setup, Setup and choose EPS File and enter
>the filename you want the file to be printed to.
>
>No problemo.
>

You might also try checking the 'print to file'
button in the file-print dialog box! This was
added in v.2 I believe. Also there is another
method that works for all programs (one is of
course the eps option as above). Add the line
File:= to your ports section of win.ini (it may
already be there). Then 'connect' your
printer to that 'port' in the control panel.
When you print you will be prompted for a file
name. You can also put File:=filename in win.ini
which will cause windows to print to that file.
The advantage here is that it works for all
printer drivers, not just postscript. You can
also have multiple entries with different printer
drivers pointing to different files, etc.

What I'd really like to see is a way to assign my
print output to my ethernet connection so that my
docs would automatically be printed on our network
SparcPrinter.

--
Timothy Keitt
tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu

Graduate school, its not just a job
its an indenture!
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Subject: Re: CREATING POSTSCRIPT FILE FROM MS WORD
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 92 17:46:44 GMT
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