Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302224280.4585-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200006301307.e5UD7pu07184@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > 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. OK, if that's true, then the comments about apsfilter being such a huge hog as compared to LPRng are totally incorrect (and in fact the situation is in fact the reverse of what was said). Apsfilter + our present lpd would be a lot smaller. Could anyone proposing LPRng please state the improvements that LPRng provides over lpd + apsfilter? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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