Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer cs nmsu edu>]

   Have you considered adding any type of print services BESIDES Postscript?
   Postscript is relatively rare among those of us who can't afford
   enterprise-level Laserjets, ya know...

   How about WYSIWYG output on HP Office Jets?  Cannon bubble-jets?  My
   crappy 24-pin dot matrix printer (that still works great!)?  Without the
   use of enormous memory hogging Postscript interpretters?  I can go and get
   a cheap laser printer that understands HPGL, but is incapable of
   supporting Postscript, for well under $500. 

I suggest apsfilter, which uses ghostscript to translate PostScript to
other printer types.  I've never noticed it to be especially enormous
or memory-hogging.

   This is perhaps the NUMBER ONE reason why Linux isn't used for serious
   desktop productivity right now -- it can't print!  What's presented on the
   screen is one thing -- that has already been mastered.  Now let's start to
   tackle the paper output side of things.

My Deskjet 672C works just fine with Linux (with a little help from
apsfilter).
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