Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [Gimp-print-devel] An introduction to gnome-print (fwd)

[Michael Sweet <mike easysw com>]

Ben Woodard wrote:
> ...
> The tricky part is getting PPD files to work with non-ps printers. I
> spent a couple days recently seeing what it would take to enhance gs
> drivers to handle many of the things that are commonly done in PPD
> files. It appears non-trivial.

The standard gdevprn and friends supports the PageSize and Duplex
settings; most of the GS drivers provide BitsPerPixel and other
settings.  Adding additional variables is not difficult - see the
gdevcups driver in the CUPS version of GNU GhostScript for an
example that supports all of the Adobe standard page dictionary
variables.

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