Re: OT:converting openoffice documents to postscript

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Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:10:30 -0400

Kirk Job-Sluder wrote:
> On 2004-06-29, sake <sake@snafu.de> wrote:
>
>>eversince openoffice documents are printed on postscripts printers
>>there should be some tool which converts a sxw document to
>>ps before sending it to the printer (print filters).
>>I checked with apsfilter but this filter doesnt work
>>with the sxw format.
>>
>>So how can i convert sxw documents to postscript?
>>any recommendations are welcome
>>TIA
>
>
> Ok, half of the problem is using 'soffice -p <file>' or
> 'soffice -pt <printer> <file>' this will send postscript to the desired
> printer.
>
> The next step is beyond me of setting up a print queue that simply dumps
> the resulting postscript into a file.
>
> If you just want output that can be scanned or parsed, I have a quick
> and dirty python tool that will do it.
>
>
>>sake.

Using LPRng, you can set a queue to "holdall", which will leave the
df?????? file with the print job waiting indefinately.

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