html2ps: A plug

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:37:41 PDT 2004


You said "windows doesn't do postscript very well".  I said "it does it 
just as well as unix if you install ghostgscript".

I have no clue what your little rant below has to do with any of that.

Joel Hammer wrote:
> Let me see. How many people at work have Ghostscript installed on their
> windows pc's?
> 
> I suspect less than 0.1% overall and 0.0% of the people with whom I
> interact.
> 
> When my engineering student son in his freshman year was assigned some
> homework over the holidays, it was in postscript. Nobody in the class could
> read it on their pc's.  (Dad came through that time.)
> 
> However, you can insist they be able to read pdf documents.
> Joel
> 
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Joel Hammer wrote:
>>
>>>Just a plug for html2ps, if you haven't used it yet.
>>>
>>>I have been using enscript to generate postscript files from text files.
>>>I am very happy with it, but, there are some formatting issues I haven't
>>>had much success with.
>>>
>>>And, of course, since this is a windows world, and windows doesn't do
>>>postscript very well, I always have to generate pdf files from these
>>
>>Huh?  It does it just as well as *nix if you install Ghostscript.

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