Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:29:25 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <395D81B5.35937B89@asme.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302200040.4585-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote:
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>
> 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?
>
FWIW, hp2xx can do some conversions between several formats and PCL and
stuff used by plotters. When I updated the GNU ghostscript port (now
dead as far as I am concerned), I added a PCL driver that converts all
the ghostscript stuff to PCL. I suggested Martin Lottermoser (the
author) a module for X, somewhat like display postscript, that could
handle PCL instead of ps, he then claimed that this was a good idea
because hislatest version didn't depend on ghostscript anymore.
This is getting off-topic, but when I looked at apsfilter I disliked two
things:
1) the license.
2) It required configuring some stuff to build so it was not available
as a package.
I disagree on converting everything to postscript in the first place so
I ended up using one of the filters that comes with ghostcript.
I have not used LPRng lately but, except for future compatibility with
BSDi, I don't see any reason to replace our lpd.
cheers,
Pedro.
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