Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:26:35 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <v04210131b582856bd1b7@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300908330.4585-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300908330.4585-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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At 9:18 AM -0400 6/30/00, Chuck Robey wrote: >On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > I'm a bit spaced out right now, but offhand I don't see why > > ghostscript would be needed for converting anything (except > > PDF) into postscript. I suspect apsfilter only uses it for > > printing postscript jobs on non-postscript printers, or for > > doing clever manipulation of postscript (for page-counting, > > perhaps). I would be inclined to use something like netpbm > > to get GIF images INTO postscript. Not ghostscript. > > > > [this says nothing about how much stuff lprng or apsfilter > > brings in, of course. I'm just not sure why one would fire > > up ghostscript to print gif images...] > >Because postscript printers only print postscript, and not gif. Well, I'm aware of that part... :-) I think you're answering a bigger question than I'm asking. Let me put it this way. I have printed many GIF images in my life, and at no time have I fired up ghostscript to do it. Not once. None of my personal computers even have ghostscript installed (even though all our public workstations do). Thus, my first reaction is that a person doesn't NEED ghostscript to print a GIF image on a postscript printer. My first guess might be to use something like netpbm, or to look into ports/graphics/gif* to see what packages are there. I understand apsfilter is using ghostscript for a number of other very useful things. I just thought the specific comment about using ghostscript to print GIF images seemed odd. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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