From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 30 19:18:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF0537B760; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:18:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: by gw.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 717A29B3A; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:18:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:18:30 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Chuck Robey Cc: David O'Brien , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000630211830.B22972@spawn.nectar.com> References: <20000630161354.C11113@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:38:33PM -0400 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:38:33PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > I was trying to goad someone who's installed LPRng to say how > it goes about printing gifs, ascii, jpegs, etc, on a postscript > printer. If LPRng itself calls out to ghostscript, then the claim about > LPRng being smaller is very false. LPRng itself doesn't have clever filters. Typically one will use IFHP (a clever filter), and that in turn will use ghostscript if necessary. [I have not compared the size of apsfilter vs. LPRng.] > Hasn't anyone installed it, and is willing to discuss how it works for > them? I was using apsfilter (for 2+ years), I am now using LPRng + IFHP. It works well. My personal comparison of the two: apsfilter -- always converts to postscript -- converts MANY formats automatically LPRng+IFHP -- easier to set up -- MUCH better administrative tools than lpr -- user security (rather than host) -- support for Socket API, AppSocket (HP JetDirect and Tektronix respectively) One must understand that LPRng replaces BSD lpd et. al. Filters are still needed. It is quite possible to run LPRng+apsfilter if one wants to do so, for example. Now the bad news: Don't try to use the ports. They are out of date. LPRng will not compile on -STABLE without a patch. IFHP does not work with parallel printers on -STABLE. Yes, I'm planning to update the ports if the MAINTAINER does not. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message