Subj : Re: Print to JPEG
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Hamed Seifoddini
Date : Fri Jun 25 2004 01:04 am

Thnx a lot. It worked

Rod Smith wrote:
> In article <cb97ic$o1e7@news-dxb.emirates.net.ae>,
> 	Hamed Seifoddini <hamed@seifoddini.com> writes:
> 
>>Anyone knows where to find a "PRINT TO JPEG" driver for linux?
>>I want to print my openOffice documents to JPEG
> 
> 
> You can print to a PostScript file, then use Ghostscript (gs executable)
> to convert to JPEG:
> 
> gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=file.jpg file.ps
> 
> Various additional options will let you set the resolution and other
> options. You can also do this to various other formats, like PNG or TIFF.
> Depending on what you're printing, these may work better than JPEG. I'm
> sure there are graphics programs that'll load PostScript, too, but
> offhand I don't know what would work best for that.
> 
> If you wanted to, I'm sure you could set up a print queue that'd do this
> processing for you automatically, but I don't know of any site that
> documents precisely how you'd go about doing this.
>

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