From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 30 22:24:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from c1mailgw1.prontomail.com (c1mailgw1.prontomail.com [208.178.29.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 243ED37B5ED for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: by c1mailgw1.prontomail.com (NPlex 4.5.049) id 3958EAA7000696A3; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:23:22 -0700 Received: from 209.88.169.142 by SmtpServer for ; Sat, 01 Jul 2000 05:22:44 +0000 Message-ID: <395D81B5.35937B89@asme.org> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:29:25 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > ... > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message