From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 30 6:10: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816BF37B71A for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA18002; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:08:16 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda18000; Fri Jun 30 06:08:13 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA50406; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdq50404; Fri Jun 30 06:07:52 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.2/8.9.1) id e5UD7pu07184; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006301307.e5UD7pu07184@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdlu7180; Fri Jun 30 06:07:20 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Chuck Robey , Will Andrews , papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:23:27 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:07:20 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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