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Re: Translate WordPerfect file into Postscript file

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From: Philip Norris
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:11
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In article <6680@pdxgate.UUCP>, ni@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Shengsong Ni) writes:
|>
|>Is there any program which converts Word Perfect files into Postcript 
|>files? I bring up this question because I can only access a laser printer
|>connected to an UNIX box. I appreciate any respones.
|>
|>--Shengsong Ni
|>

Use Wordperfect itself. Select a printer in Wordperfect which matches the
postscript printer which will ultimately print your document, but define
the port which the driver will use to be a file, not a port. Voila! The
file will contain the postscript which would normally be sent to the
printer port. The details to do this are in your Wordperfect manuals
(but approximately, from memory - version 5.1):

    DOS				WINDOWS
    * Shift-F7			File-->Print	to print
    * S				Select		select printer
    * 2 (Add)			Add		if you must add your printer
    * 3 (Edit)			Setup		change printer setup details
    * 2 (Port)			Port-->		specify where output goes ...
    * 8 (Other)			    -->File	... to a non-standard place
    * Device or Filename:	Filename	give full path + filename

Hope this helps. Your only problem then is to get the file onto Unix :-).

--
Regards

Philip Norris - pnor@se.alcbel.be
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