Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:07:20 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006301307.e5UD7pu07184@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:23:27 EDT." <v0421012fb581cfdf2938@[128.113.24.47]>
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In message <v0421012fb581cfdf2938@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes: > 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...] For some printers you'll need ghostscript. I for example have an Epson printer which uses a proprietary Epson language called ESC/2. Apsfilter uses ghostscript to convert postscript or anything else for that matter into ESC/2 so my printer can print it. For Windows, Epson distributes a driver that performs, in the loosest terms, the same function as ghostscript. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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