Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)
- From: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas rainbow studorg tuwien ac at>
- To: gtk-list redhat com
- cc: "Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson gimp org>
- Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:43:47 +0200 (CEST)
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
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