Re: GS/OS Printing and Ghostscript

[philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)]

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.
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>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