Postscript Printer Definition

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 21, 2010, Rob Lewis wrote:
>Hi Bob,

>Actually what I need to do is print to PDF.  I have CUPS running and have a
>printer configure there that prints to a PDF formatted file.  Works fine
>with no print codes, but of course the customer wants formatting. :)

I usually do this on *nix systems using groff which takes plain
text input, and can create a variety of outputs including
Postscript and PDF.  It's even more fun with gplot to create
pretty graphs which can be include in groff using .PSPIC.

Bill
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