final writer 97 in winUAE to... jpg? pdf? anything???

[RW222]

Think I managed to get a postscript file one time by pipeing PAR: to a file with a postscript printer slected.

[RW222]

Interesting....

I had a version of ghostscript for the Amiga, needed a lot of chipram to work. Had to close down MUI and stuff to use it. However, this may or may not be the case here, just bear it in mind if you have issue and strip the WB to basics.

Also, I used Final Copy 2 to do work for university, so I'm sure it has MS word .doc format compatibility somewhere... might only be word 5.0 or something. Also thought it had wordperfect 6 compatibility.

[RW222]

idiot wrote:

RW222 wrote:
Think I managed to get a postscript file one time by pipeing PAR: to a file with a postscript printer slected.

Can you explain more step by step what this means?  Does it work with graphics and fonts?

I'm afraid it's 12 years since I did it last, so real hazy on the specifics. The general principle is however, to choose a postscript capable printer driver. I think LaserJet is one, and Apple Laser Writer is another, not 100% sure though, sorry. Then in the CLI use the pipe command to redirect the output that would normally go to the parallel port to a file. PAR: is the parallel port device. Print from the application, then go back and unset the redirection, then take that file and feed it to a postscript savvy application on the PC such as ghostscript and it should be able to read it, and print it to another printer, postscript or otherwise (Presuming of course you named it as something.ps) The file will have any graphics in it that were printable, as the printer would print them. So if you have color images they will be rendered in grayscale. If you have vector images, you won't be able to extract them in vector format from the .ps file.

I'm real rusty on how to use pipe correctly though. Hopefully someone with a better memory or more recent experience with this will fill in the blanks for you.