>From: Ken Yap
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: LPD, printing filter, terminal program and other tools
>Date: Tuesday 25 May 1999 01:39
>>That uses (3) as a "transparent print spooler", as per my quoted
>>comment, and the development of a "translating print spooler" using
>>utilities such as ghostscript (can that be easily ported to ELKS)
>>would follow from there.
>Transparent print spoolers will work but I think translating print
>spoolers are a bit optimistic. A friend of mine tried to run ghostscript
>on his diskless 386 but it took ages to render anything. Besides have
>you looked at the size of ghostscript.
thats true, but you only need ghostscript if you want to send PostScript
output to a non-postscript printer. But you can also make a very simple
PostScript filter for text-only printing on a laserwriter, like mpage. All
you need to know is the paper size, and it takes only a few lines.
You don't need to render your output on screen, the printer does the job.
If you're interested I can show you.
I haven't tried yet to build pcl output but it shouldn't be very
difficult too .
Riwal Raude
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