[cw-discuss] Re: wine postscript printer driver config

[Ellen Van Landingham]

Ant <ant at symons.net.au> wrote,

> Im trying to use word inside wine to convert docs to postscript files.
> Im using vbscript to remote control word, and tell it to print to the
> wine postscript printer driver. Then i'm grabbing the postscript file
> off disk for further processing. Ive looked at openoffice, and the wv
> set of tools and while they were easyer and quicker, the output was not
> always exactly 100% which is a requirement. 

Ant,

There may be an easier way.  Use Word's "print to file" option to
create a .prn file (MS printer file).  ps2pdf is happy to convert
prn files to PDF and seems to do a very accurate job.

Hope this helps,

ellen
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