From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 17 19:43:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0DA37BA67 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p136.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.136]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA83582; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:43:01 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA00385; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:35:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:35:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Jukka Simila Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Printing appears to be another of the unbelievable weirdnesses endemic to > > the > > unixes ..... I've always believed that ghostscript was the most complicated > > way > > possible the geeks could devise of doing the job. > I agree, I made my printer work as a line printer, and it printed PostScript as > well (In fact I like ghostscript) but I neverever made it to print graphics, > like gifs and such, not even mentioning in color. Gifs etc want to be printed via xv etc. As postscript files. You cannot lp bla.gif. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message