How to print in a portable way?

[Bengt Richter]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:32:39 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Tom Zych fed this fish to the penguins on Saturday 28 December 2002 
>05:01 am:
>
>> Would PostScript work? I would expect most systems to have drivers
>> from ps to whatever the printer uses.
>>
>        Not if you're running a Windows box.
But it's not hopeless to print postscript on non-postscript printers. YMMV.

An overview of Ghostscript

Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides: 

      an interpreter for the PostScriptTM language and the Adobe Portable
      document Format (PDF -- sometimes confused with Acrobat, Adobe's PDF
      browser and editor product), and 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.

Regards,
Bengt Richter