From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 16:42: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272BF37B887 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA77304; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:42:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:42:00 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Trevor Johnson Cc: Woody Carey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, andy@tigertown.k12.mo.us Subject: Re: HP "host based" printers (PPA) and FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > It is definately a "WinPrinter". There might be some light at the end > > of the tunnel, though. I recall hearing about some poor soul > > attempting to write drivers for Ghostscript for these "things". > > Yes, see http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ for that project. Which, coincidentally, I just noticed is in the ports collection. See ports/print/pbm2ppa. Now if the ghostscript team would just integrate this into the next verison of ghostscript, we'd be set. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message