postscript

I'm trying to print a PDF document with the win32print module. Apparently this module can only accept PCL or raw text. Is that correct? If so, is there a module available to convert a PDF document into PCL? I contemplated using ShellExecute; however, this is not an option since it only allows printing to the default printer. I need to print to a variety of printers on servers across various networks. Thanks for your help, Pete I ended up using Ghostscript to accomplish this task. There is a command line tool that relies on Ghostscript called gsprint . You don't even need Acrobat installed to

I want to create a virtual printer driver for Windows. How and where can I start properly? The WDK has some printing drivers examples that do not seems a good introductory. MSDN also doesn't seems to be very helpful for a novice. There are a lot of virtual printers for Windows out there (mostly they generate PDFs), I wonder if someone could tell my how can I do the same? Any links to the elaborating documentations are appreciated in advance. Thanks. When I did it (which about 12 years ago) I started with the postscript driver sample, replaced all the postscript-specific stuff (in my case, to

I have two pdf or postscript files (I can work with either one). What I want to do is merge each page on top of the other so that page1 of document A will be combined with page 1 of document B to produce page 1 of the output document. This isn't something I necessarily want need to do programatically, although that would be helpful. Any ideas? You can do this with pdf files using the command line tool pdftk using the stamp or background option. e.g. $ pdftk file1.pdf background file2.pdf output combinedfile.pdf This will only work with a one-page background file. If you have multiple pages,

I want to remove all images from a PDF file. The page layouts should not change. All images should be replaced by empty space. How can this be achieved with the help of Ghostscript and the appropriate PostScript code? Meanwhile the latest Ghostscript releases have a much nicer and easier to use method of removing all images from a PDF. The parameter to add to the command line is -dFILTERIMAGE gs -o noimages.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERIMAGE input.pdf Even better, you can also remove all text or all vector drawing elements from a PDF by specifying -dFILTERTEXT or -dFILTERVECTOR . Of course,