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

[Andreas Kostyrka <andreas rainbow studorg tuwien ac at>]

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, KC5TJA wrote:

> 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...
Postscript is the ``universal'' UNIX printing language.
> 
> How about WYSIWYG output on HP Office Jets?  Cannon bubble-jets?  My
> crappy 24-pin dot matrix printer (that still works great!)?  Without the
Just install printing filters.
> use of enormous memory hogging Postscript interpretters?  I can go and get
enormous memory hogging Postscript interpretters????

I'm driving a Lexmark Optra E+ without troubles with ghostscript from:
CPU: 486/75
RAM: 8MB
disc: none.
primary usage: X :0 -query server 

So it's not really a problem in my eyes, when a discless 8MB 486/75
workstation isn't even noticing the strain of feeding a 6+ pages/minute
printer.

> a cheap laser printer that understands HPGL, but is incapable of 
HPGL? 
You mean PCL?

> supporting Postscript, for well under $500. 
> 
> This is perhaps the NUMBER ONE reason why Linux isn't used for serious
Nope. Setting up postscript printing is trivial (at least with RH, and I
assume also with other distros.) So if this is our No. 1 problem, then
we are quite happy :)

Admittingly, gs could be a bit to much for a 386/40 (I'll have to try
*g*), but anything sensible for GUI work is absolutly a non-problem for gs
:)

> 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.
But it's already solved. :)

Andreas