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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:40:58 PDT7
From:	"Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"Peter Skye" <pskye@peterskye.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: virtual printer driver ?

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Use Ghostscript/ghostview and print to file using any of the
several bitmap drivers

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:24:18 PDT7, Peter Skye wrote:

>I need a "virtual printer driver" which will create a bitmap image of a
>printed page. In other words, I want to print to the "Virtual" printer
>and have it create a file somewhere which, if opened in PMView or
>somesuch, looks exactly like what would otherwise have ended up on
>paper. (The equivalent of a "screen capture" but this is a "printed
>page capture".)
>
>The spooler files aren't bitmaps so I can't use them. (Lurkers: The
>spooler files contain the streams of control sequences and data for
>particular printers, but they don't contain a graphical image of the
>page.)
>
>The following search string in Google gives results but if someone can
>point me in the right direction . . .
>
> virtual printer driver "os/2"
>
>- Peter
>
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