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- From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: GS/OS Printing and Ghostscript
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.181311.3469@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Nov12.062108.2413@utstat.uucp> <1dt3agINN2lj@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:13:11 GMT
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- In article <1dt3agINN2lj@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
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- [ ]
- >
- >Unfortunately, it requires ghostscript to operate. I FTPd the ghostscript
- >archive, and was a bit taken aback to discover it had 1.5mb tarred and
- >compressed source. Of course, lots of that is screen drivers for X that
- >could be removed, but it looks like a very major project.
- >
- >I too would love to see it ported, but don't hold your breath. It's a very
- >very massive program, and would take a lot of effort to port from what I
- >can see.
-
- Yes I assume it would be a lot of work. Note however that it does exist for
- the PC so that someone must already have removed the X specific components.
- I should imagine that it takes a lot of work to write printer drivers for
- each printer from the GS (along the Harmonie lines). Ghostscript seems in
- principle at least a more general attack on the problem which gives up speed
- and text mode printing for the unified Postscript filter approach. It might
- make a very natural GNO applications.
-
- Philip
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-