Ghostscript
Prints PostScript EPS files with most Windows Printers and also Converts
PostScript to PDF files.
Ghostscript is the name of a set of software programs that provides:
An Interpreter for the PostScript™ language and the Adobe
Portable Document Format (PDF -- sometimes confused with Acrobat, Adobe's PDF
browser and editor product).
Input Modules (utilities) for reading a variety of raster formats,
including CMYK, GIF, JFIF (JPEG), MIFF, PBM/PGM/PPM, and PCX.
Output Modules (drivers) for a wide variety of window systems (including
X Windows and Microsoft Windows), raster file formats, and printers, as well as
a PDF output module that implements functions similar to Adobe's AcrobatTM
DistillerTM product.
The Ghostscript Library, a set of procedures to implement the graphics
and filtering capabilities that are primitive operations in the PostScript
language and in PDF.
In simple terms, this means that Ghostscript can read a PostScript or PDF file and display the results on the screen or convert them into a form you can print on a non-PostScript printer. Especially together with several popular previewers, with Ghostscript you can view or print an entire document or even isolated pages, even if your computer doesn't have Display PostScript and your printer doesn't handle PostScript itself.
Two program are required for the Windows 32bit Operating Systems:
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 and GSview 4.4 (A graphical interface for Windows)
Down load them from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Ghostscript is a copyrighted work (artofcode LLC owns the copyright); it is not shareware or in the public domain. Different versions of it are distributed with different licenses. Versions entitled "AFPL Ghostscript", or older versions called "Aladdin Ghostscript", are distributed with a license called the Aladdin Free Public License that allows free use, copying, and distribution by end users, but does not allow commercial distribution.
The PostScript option in Generic CADD may be used to print Generic CADD drawings to file as Encapsulated PostScript files.
The free generic PostScript printer driver download from Adobe allows you to
print (or save to file) a letter size EPS to file from General CADD Pro,
Visual CADD, and most Windows programs.
[Editors Note: I downloaded the free programs, installed them, and found that .eps files print very well from GSview 4.4 to my Epson 1520 printer.]
Our thanks to Tassos for the best GCD printing
solution found to date.
His message posted on our Generic CADD Forum follows:
Yia to all from Greece.
There is 2 free programs that interpret the EPS files ,so WIn.Printers can print
even in color.
Go there : [To the Site listed above].
and get the interface program for Gsview32 and then get the interpreter program
for GHOSTSCRIPT
Install the 2 zip to the same dir.
In Gcadd6 select as printing device the POSTSCRIPT option
and as a port : FILE postscript
Pick 7 (option ) for writing the EPS file in your HD.
Then run the GSVIEW32 ,load the EPS and
have a good printing and...
MIA KALH MERA (A GOOD DAY)
Tassos
I had excellent results in my Canon 3000.
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