Scanning documents to PDF

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Sat Sep 7 17:11:00 2002

At 01:40 PM 9/7/02 +0200, you wrote:
>> The trick in Windows is going to be printing to a PostScript file.
>
>Why? Just install a HP laserjet PS driver and have te output sent to a
>file. All standard options.
>
> -- hbp

No, no standard options (I do this all the time): Click
"Print to a file". Then choose Laserjet properties.
( I use the HP Laserjet 4/4M driver).
In the postscript tab, choose "ADSC for portability"
as opposed to "Optimize for speed", the default.
Then, after the postscript file is produced, remove
the first few lines until the first line in the document starts with
%!PS-Adobe-3.0

Then remove the last few lines until the last line is
%%EOF

Only then you have a true postscript document.
These are easy to convert to pdf using ps2pdf.
By the way, this script comes with Ghostscript,
not Ghostview; Ghostview is just a graphics
front end for Ghostscript.

carlos.


carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat Sep 07 2002 - 17:11:00 BST