On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jim Gettys wrote: > This is not true; you can presume all cups/IPP printers support > postscript and PDF, courtesy of ghostscript in the remote cups server. > > And cairo will happily produce PDF. > > That IPP can expose other formats to clients can be treated as a legacy > capability, from where we sit.
good, I've tried configuring systems this way with CUPS and found it extremely frustrating to work around CUPS to make get it working. I will be very glad to see this in place. David Lang > - Jim > > > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:20 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 16:24 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >>>> *But*, we should be able to: >>>> * Print postscript (or pdf, or whatever, just pick *one*) to >>>> school server via CUP (IPP?), >>> >>> cups uses IPP under the hood and IPP is definitely the route to go as >>> it's basically The Standard in printing these days. One thing that >>> would probably be interesting for OLPC with cups, though, would be >>> working on making it so that the daemon can be started on-demand rather >>> than having to start on start-up. There's some support in cupsd for >>> this already, but it's tied to launchd on OS/X. >> >> once concern that I have with CUPS/IPP (which may very well just be an >> implementation issue with the current tools) is that the setups that I >> have seen have wanted to have the printer driver for the specific printer >> on the device initiating the print job. >> >> the setup that we would want to use for the XO would be to have them all >> create the job using a single definition (postscript would be traditional >> for this sort of thing) and then have the server convert this to what the >> local printer needs. >> >> David Lang >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
