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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 11, Hardware
#95 Print to Unsupported Printers
HACK
Because steps 4 and 5 are where the magic happens, the rest of this hack
covers setting up Ghostscript as a pseudoprinter.
Creating a Redirected Printer
The first step in getting the redirected printer working is to install Ghost-
Script and some supported programs on Windows. Download and install
the following programs:
Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get814.htm)
RedMon (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/)
GSview (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm)
GSview is sometimes packaged with Ghostscript, so you might not need to
install it separately.
Within the directory containing gsprint.exe (C:\GS\GSVIEW, by default),
create the file gsprint.cfg with the following content:
-noquery
-color
-printer
windows_printer_name
-ghostscript
"C:\GS\GS8.14\BIN\GSWIN32C.EXE"
You can remove the -color line if you are using a black-and-white printer.
The path in the last line should be the actual path to gswin32c.exe. The line
windows_printer_name must exactly match the name the real Windows
printer has in the control panel. Be careful about spaces; there must not be
any trailing or leading spaces on any of the lines, and there must not be any
blank lines in the file (including at the end).
Next, create a new printer in the control panel that uses the Apple Laser-
Writer II driver (this driver is for a PostScript printer). ...
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