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Re: printing .pdf files



On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Carl Fink wrote:

> > On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:15:06AM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote:
>  
> > I find that printing from Acroread produces some postscript that ghostscript
> > doesn't like.  This may be a bug in either package, I don't know.
> 
> I've seen this also.
>  
> > In any case, ghostscripts starting at about 4.0 (I think) can print pdf
> > files natively.  Skip the acroread step, and just ghostscript it directly. 
> > (I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!)
> 
> How does one print a pdf from ghostscript?  The docs for the package,
> like the great majority of free software, seem to be written as a
> memory aid for the programmer who created it and are nearly
> incomprehensible to mere users like me.

Use pdf2ps, included in the gs-aladdin package.

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