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In article <87290@netnews.upenn.edu>, burgess@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Richard Burgess) writes:
|> 
|> I have a need to convert GDI calls (text and graphics directed at 
|> the printer) to a saveable file format.  While I did not previously 
|> need to store an electronic copy of this form, a need has arisen.  

|> Richard Burgess
|> The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
|> email burgess@eniac.seas.upenn.edu   

If you are keeping everything local on the PC, why not write the data 
out to a Windows Metafile?  Many packages (Word, Micrografx Designer, etc.)
can read a Metafile and display/print it.  It is also easy to write a
program to play one in a window.  (SDK contains a sample that is close
to what you may want.)

If you really need the file in PS format for viewing on UNIX/VMS/etc.
systems under ghostscript, how about printing to a file on the PC in
PS format and copying that file over to the target system?

Either of these can be done in Windows without having to write code.


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