[X Newbies] Can I Print a Postscript (.ps) File? - YES!

Steven Rogers srogers1 at austin.rr.com
Wed Jan 8 16:06:39 PST 2003


On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> on 03/01/07 22:53, Jerry Krinock at dearjerry at mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> Anyhow, I don't have an OS 9 printer driver for my current printer, 
>> so I couldn't print.  But I was able to save it as a "postscript" 
>> (.ps) file.
>
> Someone told me verbally to "send it to a postscript printer."  We 
> have a HP laser printer here, so I opened my Print Center, opened the 
> laser printer window, and dragged the .ps file from the Finder to it.
>
> It started printing.  It just worked.  OS X is amazing.

Another option would be to save it as a PDF instead of generating a 
postscript file. Then you could view the PDF and print it on any 
computer you have with a printer.

SR



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