Bernard Leak wrote:
By the way, is there any particular reason for '--without-ijs'
in the build instructions?
Some printer drivers use the IJS framework, some don't. If you use CUPS
and your printer driver is available as a native CUPS driver, you don't
need IJS (in fact, you don't need any special support for your printer
in Ghostscript).
And can anyone tell me anything
useful about '--with-omni'?
Omni is a dead set of printer drivers. It used to be available from
http://www-124.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/ but now
it is completely abandoned. It also used to be in the book, but I
demanded its removal in 2004 because the build instructions in the book
were wrong for CUPS users. See
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/730
The linuxprinting.org opinion can be read at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=omni
(note: due to their strong bias towards the foomatic system, and because
they never explain exactly what software is required to use their PPD
files, leading to non-working entries in CUPS printer list, I won't
recommend the use of the linuxprinting.org site for anything except
checking that the printer is supported at all)
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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