Gnome/KDE printing... (fwd)

[Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna total net>]

Hi

This is an interesting subject.

I must also apologize for having promised to Havoc that I'll try to write
up a summary of common points we (Gnome and KDE) could try to start to
work on. I didn't manage to get the time yet. But I will

Thanks for understanding

Cristian Tibirna     : ctibirna@total.net     : www.total.net/~ctibirna
PhD Student          : ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca : web.gch.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:33:12 -0400
From: Peter Silva <peter.silva@videotron.ca>
To: rhp@zirx.pair.com, ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca
Subject: Gnome/KDE printing...


Hello Havoc,

I'm a KDE'r in a small way.  I read your GNOME June 14-21 summary 
on LinuxToday.  You mentioned both Christian, and easy printing on
UNIX.  I just thought I'd mention www.cups.org on the off chance you
haven't heard about it.  It's pure GPL.  I haven't used it, but
it's the first thing I've heard of that is better than a plain 
old spooler and is reasonably portable.

It looks like it's done "right" from the descriptions on the web site.
It's based on an RFC/IETF Internet Printer Protocol, adds "network
neighbourhood" style printer browsing, the ability to specify options 
like media size, saturation, etc..., and an API, but I haven't found
docs on that yet. It also has some mime-type code, a filter pack and 
a hacked ghostscript, so that it can grok many file formats and deal 
easily with different sorts of printers.

It sounds good.

-- 
Peter