dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent) (06/25/91)
G'Day all How do I print to a postscript printer from, say, a Turbo Pascal program? My PC programs haven't had to do this kind of printing and the only environment I've used which had postscript was on Mac where you just draw your image and the driver takes care of the rest. In a non-Windows environment, are there drivers available off the shelf for Postscript, or libraries I can link to my code? C or Pascal answers gratefully received. I would also appreciate references to good books on this subject, so far my PC programming has been limited to database filters and other "computational" problems, which didn't go anywhere near the printer. Thanks in Advance Andy Dent A.D. Software (09) 249 2719 94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA Western Australia 6066 dent@DIALix.oz.au
sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun) (06/26/91)
dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent) writes: >G'Day all >How do I print to a postscript printer from, say, a Turbo Pascal >program? My PC programs haven't had to do this kind of printing >and the only environment I've used which had postscript was on Mac >where you just draw your image and the driver takes care of the >rest. >In a non-Windows environment, are there drivers available off the >shelf for Postscript, or libraries I can link to my code? >C or Pascal answers gratefully received. >I would also appreciate references to good books on this subject, >so far my PC programming has been limited to database filters and >other "computational" problems, which didn't go anywhere near the >printer. >Thanks in Advance >Andy Dent >A.D. Software >(09) 249 2719 >94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA Western Australia 6066 >dent@DIALix.oz.au I'll give you a C answer then :-) #include <stdio.h> main () { char[80] book_to_read, sending_to_postscript_printer, reason; book_to_read = "PostScript Reference from Adobe, the red book"; sending_to_postscript_printer = "sending plain ascii to printer port"; reason = "PostScript is itself pure ascii, no trick, not binary encoding"; } Andy _______________________________________________________________________________ Andy Sun | Internet: sun@me.utoronto.ca University of Toronto, Canada | UUCP : ...!utai!me!sun Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | BITNET : sun@me.toronto.BITNET