From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 17 18:18:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431AD14CD3 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:18:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr364-a109.otenet.gr [195.167.112.205]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA06278 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:18:14 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 4300 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 1999 01:20:10 -0000 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [keramida@ceid.upatras.gr: Re: printers (was Re: keyboards)] References: <199910180106.VAA14587@mailfw1.ford.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 18 Oct 1999 04:20:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: "Brian O'Connor.'s message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:06:16 +1000" Message-ID: <8690511n3p.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 37 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" writes: > >> One of the big stumbling blocks is the lack of an abstract printing > >> model for applications. > > er.. I thought thats what postscript was. It is the closest thing we have to such a thing, yes. However... > > Of course, having some standards like, say, PCL or PostScript is fine, but > it does not give us the possibility to use those 'extra' features each > printer might have. > > I thought the postscript ppd model did this, it works well for Irix. > > ie copy .ppd from windows driver or from vendor(ie hp) or from > adobe to the appropriate place, rehash the printer info, and add the queue. > The printer manager now shows the extra features(duplex, hi res etc) when you. > select that queue, and they are available via "lp -o