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Title: Pdf2ps
Post by: rickh on March 22, 2005, 02:46:17 pm

So I got a2ps, lpr, et al working wonderfully on my Zaurus.  Text prints fine on a networked HP printer.  But i have a mess of PDF files (gotta love that 4 gig drive on the C3000) that I'd love to be able to print from the Zaurus, should the need come up.  I've looked around for an ipk of pdf2ps - unsuccessfully.

Anybody had any success, or even tried it?

Thanks.

R.
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Title: Pdf2ps
Post by: jamesannan on March 22, 2005, 06:49:10 pm

well I seem to  have it installed, as part of a large LaTeX package (60MB on a CF card). Not used it though (but everthing else I have tried works fine).

http://www.snowelm.com/~t/doc/tips/20031120.en.html (http://www.snowelm.com/~t/doc/tips/20031120.en.html)

James

Title: Pdf2ps
Post by: dreadlocks on March 22, 2005, 07:21:30 pm

I dont have my Zaurus setup to print but from linux I can print a PDF with lpr and never have to convert it to postscript first.

Title: Pdf2ps
Post by: rickh on March 22, 2005, 07:36:15 pm

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I dont have my Zaurus setup to print but from linux I can print a PDF with lpr and never have to convert it to postscript first.
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I guess I'm misunderstanding...
Do you issue your lpr from the zaurus?  Of course I have all the filters to do this within Linux.    But this won't work on the Zaurus.  There needs to be a filter of some sort to handle the pdf conversion.

R.
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Title: Pdf2ps
Post by: dreadlocks on March 24, 2005, 12:25:08 am

hrmm, you need apsfilter to get lpr to print pdf files.. maby you can try a debian-arm version