[GLLUG] PDF Files

Richard Houser rick at divinesymphony.net
Thu Apr 26 18:04:29 EDT 2007


Umm, a postscript file is a native printing format.  lpr filename.pdf 
and it's over.

Sean O'Malley wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Eric Miller wrote:
> 
>> True, you could be setting yourself up for a DMCA smack-down. :-)
> 
> the Beefy DMCA Smackdown tonight!
> 
> Seriously if you can just save it as a postscript file, you are golden.
> It strips the junky pdf extensions out like the javascript and
> stuff. However, im not sure it is quite that easy anymore since the
> checksum, passwd and postscript are all by default binary now. (you used
> to be able to edit the pdf files with vi... =) )
> 
> I -think- that is how I did it. I just remember pushing it between my mac
> and linux box a few times i just don't recall the utilities I used exactly
> (I have a good idea which ones I used..) I am quite sure I didnt use a gui
> app on the linux side to do it since tunneling x over an ssh connection to
> the MacOS 8 was damn near impossible. You -could- do it but....
> 
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