postscript, Printing text file on postscript printer from NT batch job

Printing text file on postscript printer from NT batch job

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Don Stei #1 / 3	Printing text file on postscript printer from NT batch job Hello, On an NT server, I am running a perl script as a batch job from which I would like to print a text file directly to a specific postscript printer on the network. Unfortunately it's not as easy as executing the DOS print command. I just get Postscript 'undefined' errors, since it's expecting postscript commands and not just the text itself. Is there a simple way to print a text file report (multiple lines), as is, to a postscript printer, without 3rd party software, (unless somehow Notepad or Wordpad print can be piggybacked on)? Or do I have to wrap some postscript commands around the report, and possibly imbed new line characters? ....Or can I possibly even circumvent postscript all together? Any help would be appreciated! NOTE: Please Remove 'nospam' from kodak.com when replying. Thanks, Don
Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:25:37 GMT

Helge Blischk #2 / 3	Printing text file on postscript printer from NT batch job Quote: > Hello, > On an NT server, I am running a perl script as a batch job from which I > would like to print a text file directly to a specific postscript printer on > the network. Unfortunately it's not as easy as executing the DOS print > command. I just get Postscript 'undefined' errors, since it's expecting > postscript commands and not just the text itself. > Is there a simple way to print a text file report (multiple lines), as is, > to a postscript printer, without 3rd party software, (unless somehow Notepad > or Wordpad print can be piggybacked on)? Or do I have to wrap some > postscript commands around the report, and possibly imbed new line > characters? ....Or can I possibly even circumvent postscript all together? > Any help would be appreciated! > NOTE: Please Remove 'nospam' from kodak.com when replying. > Thanks, > Don If you can manage to prepend a PostScript prolog to your text to be printed, my line printer emulation code might help you. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested. Helge --
Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:24:37 GMT

Benjamin Riefenstah #3 / 3	Printing text file on postscript printer from NT batch job Hi Don, Quote: > On an NT server, [...] > Is there a simple way to print a text file report (multiple lines), > as is, to a postscript printer, without 3rd party software, (unless > somehow Notepad or Wordpad print can be piggybacked on)? Actually that is one of the options. If you look into the file types for "TXT" and "DOC", you will notice the "print" and "printTo" commands. On my W2K system here they are defined as follows: TXT, print: C:\WINNT\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE /p %1 TXT, printto: C:\WINNT\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE /pt "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" and similar for "DOC" just with Wordpad. Quote: > Or do I have to wrap some postscript commands around the report, and > possibly imbed new line characters? You said "without 3rd party software", but still: I know of two Unix tools on the net that do that, called "a2ps" and "mpage". You may want to search for Windows version of these. so long, benny
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 03:04:08 GMT

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