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Author Steve Fryatt Licence Unknown Rating 5/5 (1 vote)5/5 (1 vote)5/5 (1 vote)5/5 (1 vote)5/5 (1 vote)1 vote
Version 1.00, 14th October 2012 URLs Homepage, Download (125 KB)

Introduction

A small application, provides a front-end to GhostScript, allowing PDF documents to be produced more easily under RISC OS.

Latest Changes

Rebuilt for ARMv7 Compatibility. Taken out of beta and relicensed.

Details

PrintPDF is a small application to provide a front-end to the *ps2pdf command in GhostScript, allowing PDF documents to be produced more easily under RISC OS. Normally, the process requires a document to be 'printed' to a postscript file, before that file is passed through GhostScript and converted into a PDF. This two stage process is complicated by the fact that the RISC OS printer drivers can only 'print' to a file in a single location, so care has to be taken not to overwrite an existing postscript file before it has been converted.

By setting up a dedicated postscript driver in Printers, which prints to a specific location, PrintPDF can watch out for new documents being printed and add them to a queue. These are processed in turn, with the resulting PDF files being saved using drag-and-drop from a dialogue box. To the user, printing from an application while this printer driver is selected will result in a "Create PDF" dialogue box opening; the PDF is saved directly, and no postscript files need be seen.

As the process behind the scenes still involves creating a postscript file and then converting that to a PDF, PrintPDF also provides a quick way to convert any of these files which already exist by dragging them to its icon.

PrintPDF requires GhostScript, which can be found at http://www.mw-software.com/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.htm.

RISC OS Compatibility

RISC OS 2no RISC OS 3.1xunknown RISC OS 3.5unknown
RISC OS 3.6unknown RISC OS 3.7xunknown RISC OS 4.0xyes
Select 1i9 (4.29)yes Select 2i3 (4.33)yes Select 3i3 (4.37)yes
Select 3i4/Adjust 1i2 (4.39)yes RISC OS 4.40yes Raspberry Pi (5)unknown
RISC OS 5.0xyes RISC OS 5.1xyes Beagleboard (5.xx)yes
Select 4i2 (6.0x)unknown      
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Supported Filetypes

FiletypeShort NameDescriptionOriginReadWriteNotes
ADFPDFPortable Document Format (Adobe)Adobenoyes
FF5PoScriptPostScriptAcornyesno
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