How to print to printer on machine running X serve

Øyvind Harboe oyvind.harboe@zylin.com
Wed Jan 7 08:43:00 GMT 2004


>Something I've done in the past is print to a Postscript file on the
>remote machine, convert it to PDF using ps2pdf, transfer it to the
>local computer via FTP, and then use Adobe Acrobat Reader on the local
>machine to view/print the result.

Thanks!

This is a bit elephant, but it requires no setup and it works. 

My previous via-pdf approach was to export a .pdf from OpenOffice, but 
for some reason Windows Adobe Acrobat Reader refused to load the .pdf
file + it didn't work for e.g. Evolution.

All we need now is a "xwinps2pdf" utility :-) Beats me how to go about
this in a generic, no options, no setup way though.

I don't think xwinclip supports copy & paste of files...

Øyvind




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