Automatic printing to a PS or PDF file

Hi Jeroen,

if You don´t mind it´s in german - there has been a very good article about how to build a PDF server using Ghostscript in a german computer magazine called c´t (Issue No. 6/2004). If it´s windnose You´re using this might be of interest for You (mail me if You want a copy).

Using UNIX I print "generic PS" and convert using ps2pdf (ghostscript). This can off course be automatized easily, too.

Regards

Walther

Go to this site and follow the directions

Jeroen,

You could use my FreeDist tool to automatically create PDF's from Pro-E. You can find it here

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Thank you all for your suggestions.

However, please keep in mind that

- I cannot use Pro-E's native PS output (it doesn't handle embedded files and images well). The PostScript or PDF has to be generated via a (Windows) printer driver. From looking at the instructions you have pointed me to, it is not really clear how you create the PostScript files for GhostScript to 'distill' to PDF.

- If I can get PostScript without the interactive dialogue, and without using the native PS output, then I don't need to go to PDF anymore.

Thank you for any clarification you can provide regarding the above points.

Jeroen Dekker snipped-for-privacy@square1.nl

Install a printer driver for e.g. a HP DesignJet 750C Plus PS and choose the option 'Print to file' and you'll have a PostScript file you can use with GhostScript.

Best regards,

John Bijnens

as John already said, the restrictions you mentioned come with the "generic" postscript only. I have good results here with postscript files generated using both a HP DesignJet 750C "driver" (to print drawings to a HP DesignJet 600 in b&w only, actually) and one for Tektronix Phaser for shaded gfx.

I use the ps3pdf converter to deliver documents via email, never tried what will happen if pdf files are sent to a printer directly...

Cheers Walther