html2ps: A plug

[Joel Hammer]

Windows 98 and above is a fine desktop operating system and with extra software it will
accomplish any reasonable task you want, including handling postscript.
However, it requires special software to do postscript. Does MS supply
any free software that allows you to easily create and view postscript?
Is your windows computer set up for postscript?

On the other hand,  Postscript is practically the mother tongue of
linux printing and every linux distro comes equipped to handle postscript
files.  Out of the box, clicking on a postscript file opens up the
document in a postscript viewer in linux.  I call that doing postscript
well.

I just tried an experiment.  I ftp'ed two documents, one postscript,
and one pdf, to my wife's OLD windows computer that I recently pulled
out of the bone yard.  Just by clicking on the pdf document, the document
opened quickly in acrobat reader without effort on my part. The postscript
file didn't have any default application.  Postscript files are useless
as a medium of exchange in windows. I call that not doing postscript well.

Joel






On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 05:16:17PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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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