Re: Holy Crap.....Ghostscript????????????? Do a google search for tutorials.
In a nutshell, you don't actually do anything with Ghostscript. Install it and forget it.
What you do is from your art or page layout program, go to the print dialog box and "Print to File", Save as Postscript, or Save as .ps file. You have to use a printer driver that is postscript. You don't have to have that printer . . . just the driver so that when you print to file, the postscript features of the driver are embedded in the file you save. You can also print, or save it as a .pdf, which Ghostscript will recognize. You do have to set your file up to match your output media (8-1/2 x 11, 11/17, 13x18, etc.) One difficulty some people seem to have is the Postscript Printer Driver they've selected won't print the page size they need. In other words, a driver for a lettersize printer won't allow you to print Tabloid size or larger, because the driver wasn't written for that size, since that printer couldn't print it. I use Adobe PDF as my "printer" because I can set up any custom size I need.
You open Ghostview, then open the postscript, .ps or whatever file you created when you "Printed to File". It'll show up there, and from there you print to the non-postscript printer you're using for your film. Sometimes the program is a little squirrely, but once you've figured it out, it actually works very well.
This is a rough synopsis of the procedure. As I said, sometimes it's a little squirrely, and you have to look at the menus at the top to troubleshoot some setting that isn't working, but it's usually a matter that the file you made originally wasn't set up correctly.
Google for a tutorial. |