FW: [ATM] make ronchi grating

[saundby at foothill.net (Mark Graybill)]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 06:17 am, c f wrote:
> that is a nice program :)  I have saved it as a text file,  now how does it
> work?  do I save it as a bat file, or an exe?
>
> thanks a ton for the link :)
>
> clear skys,
>
> charles
>
Clip out the postscript program section and send it to your postscript-capable 
printer. For example, if you save the file as ronchi.ps you can send it to 
your printer with 'print ronchi.ps' at the DOS/Command Line prompt with DOS 
or the Windows OSes. Under a Unix, you'll do something like 'cp ronchi.ps /
dev/lp' where /dev/lp is your printer's device file. That way the raw file is 
sent to the printer. If you know your model script and filters for your 
printer won't be a problem, then you can do a normal 'lp ronchi.ps'.

You can also open the file in your favorite postscipt viewer and print it from 
there. This will usually allow it to be printed on non-postscipt printers 
where the program and your OS will translate it for your printer. Ghostview 
is a popular postscript viewer, there are others as well. And there are 
programs that will convert the postscript to PDF. You'll just want to make 
sure that your programs don't do any scaling or other "intelligent" 
processing of the image, but just print it as-is.

good luck,

Mark G.