Gavin Scott wrote:

<snip>

> The new(?) gotcha is that it appears you will only be able to print if
> you have a Postscript printer (I think we had this discussion some months
> ago though).
>
> As an alternative to the Postscript printer requirement, you could print
> to a file and use GNU's Ghostscript to view/print the result, you could
> also use Adobe's Acrobat Distiller to do the same thing, and for small
> amounts of output you could print from a web browser accessing the HP
> doc web site directly.  All of these options would work with a PCL or
> other printer.
>
> Oh, DynaText appears to only make documentation reader programs for
> Windows and Unix, so Mac users will probably be stuck with the web
> interface.

There is a version of GhostScript for the Mac, so anyone in a
cross-platform environment (I mean Mac and Windows/UNIX, not HP3000 &
AS/400) can do what Gavin describes: Print from a Windows or UNIX
machine to a file and use MacGhostScript to view it.

Ain't cross-platform great?

Patrick
--
Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Systems Programmer
Kirke-Van Orsdel, Inc.
mailto:[log in to unmask]
Visit our site! http://www.kvi-ins.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Why was it that when I was young life was complex because
I lacked experience and now that I'm experienced life is
complex because I'm not young?"            - James Trudeau