Re: ATM printable ronchi gratings

[Aart Olsen <aolsen@prairienet.org>]

I think it was Bob May who wrote:
> 
> >If you print it, you will get
> >the text rather than the lines so you have to figure out how to get the
> >printer driver out of the way>
> 

and Hugues Laroche wrote

> The smart printer drivers detect the special comment
> that identifies the start of a PostScript file, i.e.
> the "%!PS-Adobe-1.0" string should really be the first characters
> of the file.
> 
> Another way that worked well for me is to use the Acrobat Distiller
> (disclaimer ...) to convert the PS into PDF. I checked that the scale
> was correct by printing, aside of the useful grating, a metric rule.
> The printed rule matched the physical expectation.

Most modern printers know how to interpret postscript and all you need to
do is send the file directly to the printer from a command prompt, like
this in windows:

copy whatever.ps lpt1

If you're on a windows domain you can also copy to a shared network
printer, like this:

copy whatever.ps \\thismachine\thatlaser [/b]

The printer share 'thatlaser' must exist beforehand on computer
'thismachine'.  The /b is needed if the file also has binary content.

Aart Olsen
aolsen@prairienet.org