From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 30 19: 2:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E81237B742 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA91721; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:01:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Will Andrews , papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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. Were you aware that most of the netpbm things that go into postscript CALL ghostscript? In fact, since you say you've been printing jpegs and gifs for a long time, go a look (a closer one) at the executeables you've been using. How do they do it? > > [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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message