Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
On 10/13/2015 05:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
>> On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote:
>>> Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the
>>> advantages of the PDF specification.
>>>
>>> [It's also probably time to move away from pdflatex to xelatex or
>>> some other LaTeX engine with real utf8 support.]
>>
>> Thanks for bringing up the utf8 issue; I keep forgetting about it.
>>
>> But is the PDF file I produce with whatever is in Jessie likely to be
>> readable by Windows XP or Vista? I ask this because I have an older HP
>> laserjet which cannot decipher Postscript Level 3.
>
> Surely the whole point of .pdf is that it is an open standard which
> is "universal"? And it has traditionally been easier to make use of from
> Windows than from Linux.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
>
> Lisi
>
I am a little late in the discussion, but have you tried installing
ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps and possibly pdf
to pcl or some other printers they have drivers for. It has been a long
time since I used it on windows.
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Joseph Loo
jloo@acm.org
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