From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 29 21:23:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5C937C314 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA345380; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:23:04 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:23:27 -0400 To: Chuck Robey , Will Andrews From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:04 PM -0400 6/28/00, Chuck Robey wrote: >On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:41:27AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Erm, then why not do this with apsfilter? > > > > Because apsfilter also brings in far more useless junk that > > LPRng does. 26,000 lines over our current lpr == LPRng. > > apsfilter == LPRng + lots and lots and lots of other crap. > >I'm curious about that. How does LPRng get gif to postscript >conversion without ghostscript (one of the biggest pieces of >"crap" you refer to). How does it get ascii (or any other >format) to postscript? 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...] --- 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