[Info-vax] printing PS files (postscript)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-03-17 18:38:56 +0000, Timothy Stark said:

> I noticed some files are postscript.  I do not have any VMS software to 
> display or print PS files.
> 
> Does anyone have known any products that handle PS files?

If the printer has a Postscript implementation or a Postscript 
emulator, install, configure, and use DCPS DECprint Services.

If the printer does not have Postscript or Postscript emulation, you're 
left to scrounge a converter of some sort for whatever this unspecified 
printer might support.

Search for existing ports of XPDF and Ghostscript.

Display Postscript support was removed from DECwindows due to licensing 
requirements sometime in the previous millennium.

Use search in Google Groups for previous discussions here in 
comp.os.vms newsgroup.  Not the first Postscript question, after all.

Or use a modern system with current tools and a recent printer.  macOS 
can automatically convert Postscript to PDF, too.



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