[Eclug] Anyone with some postscript ideas???

Bob,

I don't know how complex your formatting requirements are, but it's possible to write Postscript code by hand. I haven't done it in a long time, but it's not too bad.

Another thing to try would be to use an application that exports Postscript (rather than using a print file) as they tend to produce clean output meant for consumption by things other than printers.

One last idea, I would imagine that it is Ghostscript that is doing the rasterization, so I wonder if you can send it a PDF instead of Postscript? There are a few good free PHP libraries to output PDF; I like FPDF.

David



> -----Original Message-----
> From: eclug-bounces at lists.eclug.net [mailto:eclug-bounces at lists.eclug.net]
> On Behalf Of Bob Mariotti
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:11 PM
> To: Eastern Connecticut Linux Users' Group
> Subject: [Eclug] Anyone with some postscript ideas???
> 
> Fellow luggers:
> 
> In my quest to print formatted labels to a Dymo USB label printer via
> cups I've learned that this device WILL accept a postscript document and
> translate it to raster as needed.  I tried lp'ing a ps document to the
> device name and the output was indeed formatted.
> 
> So my next step is to be able to replicate the postscript detail as
> output from my php program as it is piped to lp.  Sounds easy enough.
> 
> So, I thought, lets create a formatted label with openoffice and output
> it to a postscript printer as a file then take a look at the resulting
> file and I should have what I need.  Simple so it sounds.  And do that
> is exactly what I did.
> 
> However, the resulting "postscript" file is 500K for an 8 line address
> label and when I look through it I see nothing in the way of text
> strings but tons of binary (ok - hex) data.  In fact, the vast majority
> of the output seems to be hex in what appears to be a downloadable font.
> 
> Therefore, before I dig my hole all the way to China (may they could
> help me) I was hoping some of you "guys" might has some postscript
> experience and/or knowledge that you could share to guide me through
> trying to figure this out?
> 
> Anyone have any ideas as to how I can accomplish creating a "template"
> that I can use in my php program to "wrap" around my output?
> 
> Advice/suggestions/recommendations ALL appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> ps:  if need by I can email you the .odt format file to play with...
> 
>