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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Looking to replace NeWSprint.
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 06:32:16 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) writes:
-
- > We have a SPARCprinter, running off a SPARC 2 (SunOS 4.1.3,
- >X11R5, NeWS 1.0). We'd like to replace NeWSprint with something else,
- >if at all possible, hopefully smaller than the NeWS + small_openwin
- >package.
- >
- The Sparcprinter language is not proprietary- it is non-existant. The
- Sparcpritner is stupid drum with a laser- you have to send it all of
- the signals to turn the laser on and off ( ie the only thing it accepts
- is a bitmap.) Newsprint converts the input to a bitmap. The openwin is
- used to convert postscript to a bitmap. The source code for the printer
- driver is included with Newsprint, so presumably you could use something
- else to generate the bitmap for you, but you'd need a bit of time.- is
- the excess space worth a year of your time? Or has anyone set up
- ghostscript say to run the Sparcpritner?
-
- PS why the excessive cross posting?
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