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Stuart Thiessen Date: Tue Sep 19, 2000 8:27 pm Subject: Re: Acrobat converts .ps files into .pdf files | ||||||||||||
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At 11:20 09/19/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Thanks for this information, Stuart. So you are saying that Adobe >Acrobat 4.0 may possibly not have a way to make a postscript file >from a DOS file, without other programs? I am surprised...but you may >be right. I will look into this ;-) As Angus mentioned, the key problem is that SignWriter cannot direct its Postscript output to a file at this time without an additional utility such as PRN2FILE. >Your idea about asking a programmer to help me tweak SignWriter is a >nice one, except I have no programmer. Work on SignWriter 5.0 has >stopped, because I have no money at this time. You could do a "quick and dirty" way of doing what I am talking about. Using Windows Notepad, MSDOS Edit, or any other text editor, type the following to a file called SWSTART.BAT. In the place of {ALT}255, hold the ALT key while pressing the number 255 on the key pad. @ECHO OFF ECHO Starting SignWriter ... ECHO {ALT}255 prn2file/P2 %1.ps sw You call this program at the DOS prompt by saying: SWSTART {filename} where you replace {filename} with whatever file you want to use for your postscript filename. This would always send all printed output designated for LPT2 to whatever filename you designated. You will need to rename this file to something else in between print jobs or tell PRN2FILE to print to a different filename with each job. If anyone has Pascal experience, I believe it would just be a matter of telling SW to give an interface option of going to file and then ask for a filename. Then the pascal code would call PRN2FILE to set up the redirection of LPT2 or whatever port to that filename. Then the rest of the existing code would run to actually create the postscript output. I have so little Pascal experience that I am not sure I could do it. If it were in BASIC or possibly C, I might have a chance to make that kind of small change. >Good luck with your SignWriting workshops, Stuart - I sent you a box >of SignWriting literature to distribute to the participants - did you >receive it? I did receive the workshop materials! Thanks!! The Deafestival committee was quite impressed that you would send the materials that they listed Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting in the program book. So, that is great. Hope it all comes together well. Take care, Stuart Stuart Thiessen 4616 Hickman Des Moines, IA 50310 (515) 280-0005 Pager () | ||||||||||||
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