Date: 18 Oct 1999 04:20:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [keramida@ceid.upatras.gr: Re: printers (was Re: keyboards)] Message-ID: <8690511n3p.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: "Brian O'Connor.'s message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:06:16 %2B1000" References: <199910180106.VAA14587@mailfw1.ford.com>
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"Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" <boconno6@ford.com> writes: > >> One of the big stumbling blocks is the lack of an abstract printing > >> model for applications. > > er.. I thought thats what postscript was. It is the closest thing we have to such a thing, yes. However... > > Of course, having some standards like, say, PCL or PostScript is fine, but > it does not give us the possibility to use those 'extra' features each > printer might have. > > I thought the postscript ppd model did this, it works well for Irix. > > ie copy <new printer>.ppd from windows driver or from vendor(ie hp) or from > adobe to the appropriate place, rehash the printer info, and add the queue. > The printer manager now shows the extra features(duplex, hi res etc) when you. > select that queue, and they are available via "lp -o <option>" I am probably quite mistaken in overlooking .ppd here, but how does all this fit into the Ghostscript thing I have installed until now? I am not sure if it does work, but if it works somehow I will be glad to be in the absolutely wrong part of this thread :) > >It seems that it's an evil printing world out there... > > Hopefully Linux will help here. A toast to it... with all my wishes to it for making the world more open, since I have only recently switched over to FreeBSD and anything Linux does to make the world of computing more 'open' will certainly find me in the supporting side of the matter. -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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