12.1. The Ghostscript Windows redirector
12.1. The Ghostscript Windows redirector
There is now a Ghostscript printer driver available (called mswinpr2) that will print using Windows GDI
calls. There is also a port redirection tool called redmon which will run a print job through
Ghostscript before finally printing it. (Rather like an if filter in Unix's LPD). Taken all together,
this allows a Windows machine to print PostScript to a
Windows-only printer through the vendor's driver.
If you have a host-based printer that can't be used directly, you
can export it as a "Postscript" printer by using redmon,
Ghostscript, and mswinpr2 on a Windows PC and print through the
vendor's drivers.
