Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know of a module that will turn a PDF file into into a PRN formatted windows print file?

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Re: PDF 2 PRN ???
by wine (Scribe) on Jul 23, 2001 at 22:23 UTC
    A windows prn file is a file which contains your data with all the necassary printer commands for a specific printer to mark up your data.

    If you use a postscript printer those printer commands will be plain PostScript. If you're looking for a prn file for a ps-printer, i guess you can just convert your pdf document to postscript (pdf2ps) and then rename the postscript file to .prn.

    Usually the only distinction between .prn and .ps is that the .prn file cointains three extra lines at the beginning of the file with job information etc., but that'll probably not matter I think.

    - Good luck

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      Hmmm. This looks promising. Simply renaming a .ps file to a .prn and opening it in Word allows you to examine the file, so the Ghostwriter routine might help us out with these pdf's. Thanks.
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