On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:32:18PM -0400, Bob Barr wrote:
> Mike Mansheim wrote:
> Any suggestions?  Would any of the schematic/cad packages that were
> >discussed not too long ago work very well for this?  I've never used any
> >of them, but I could pick one up quickly.
>
>
> Any CAD package that does standard Windows printing for its output  provides
> the 'Print to File' capability. (I presume that most, if not all, CAD
> packages do.)
>
> If you were to install the printer driver for the same printer type as this
> other company uses, you can email them the print output file and they can
> print it out themselves.
>
In fact you may install the PostScript Printer driver, to get the more
portable output (Usually I use a PostScript driver for as simple/old printer
as possible eg. HP LJet 3 + PS). Then it should be possible to preview it
on the screen with GhostScript, or convert to pdf with ps2pdf for
wieving/printing from Acrobat or xpdf.
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