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from: Christof Lange
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Hi Mickel, 

after some studying and experimenting I came to the conclusion that
in DOS it would be the best way to convert text to pictures by 
using neither netpbm nor imagemagick, but to do it simply 
through Ghostscript. 

Probably it would be worth to mention in the postscript on your 
website that there is a Linux utility that is able to convert ttf 
fonts to type 1 fonts. It took me some time to find the relevant 
font archives on the web (for Latin2 encoding), but now I have 
quite a number of converted ttf files in my Ghostscript directory 
which make it possible to import text even in designer font 
into graphic files. Netpbm does all the rest. This might be useful 
for low-resorces Linux, too. 


On 16 Mar 07 at 12:26, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>> Now I had time to read your instructions on the web page. This is
>> fantastic. I will probably never begin to use Linux if it is that
>> simple! My old DOS word processor produces output .ps. The printer
>> in our office is PS capable, too. So it would be enough to write a
>> few scripts to modify the output that is sent to the printer.
>
>Sounds really good... How is the connection between scripts and DOS.
>When I think of scripts I think of bash shell scripts do you have 
>bash
>in DOS or how? Don't you have too print to a file first? I never was
>able to buffer the print output from WP51 in DOS.

I write batch files for the DOS command shell - aided by a hand 
full of Linux utilities (DOS ports), including sed and awk. 

If you run your word processor in a task switcher 
it is not too embarassing to print into an intermediate file. 

My favourite word processor (MS Word for DOS ;-) provides tools 
to edit the printer drivers. With this it would be possible to 
manipulate prologues or other parts of .ps files. 


>/Mikkel
>
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