From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 1 2: 8:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hromeo.algonet.se (hromeo.algonet.se [194.213.74.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A675337B9B0 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 02:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mal@algonet.se) Received: (qmail 12395 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2000 11:08:43 +0200 Received: from sinclair.tninet.se (HELO algonet.se) (195.100.94.101) by hromeo.algonet.se with SMTP; 1 Jul 2000 11:08:43 +0200 Received: from kairos.algonet.se (kairos.algonet.se [194.213.74.201]) by sinclair.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.1) with ESMTP id 785536.442522.962sinclair-s2 ; Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:08:42 +0200 Received: (mal@localhost) by kairos.algonet.se (8.8.8+Sun/8.6.12) id LAA25707; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:08:42 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:08:42 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200007010908.LAA25707@kairos.algonet.se> X-Authentication-Warning: kairos.algonet.se: mal set sender to mal@kairos.algonet.se using -f From: Mats Lofkvist To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:01:52 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 Chuck Robey wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Garance A Drosihn 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. 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? There is only one netpbm tool converting into postscript (pnmtops) and it is not using ghostscript, it is close to trivial even without any postscript support libs. _ Mats Lofkvist mal@algonet.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message