Sorry for this off-topic question, but there are many people who are interested in Palm here, so I thought it might be a good place to ask such a question, though. Is there anybody here, who would also be interested in a free Palm printing library and could help us with some ideas, hints or code? Thanks Kami Alan Shutko writes: > Justin Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was recently frustrated with companies like PalmPrint who make programs > > which allow you to print, but sell them for $40 or whatever. With most > > OSes, the capability to print is built in. I really want to do an Open > > Source IR/Serial Print library, and I was wondering if anyone was already > > doing this or would be interested. I'm a pretty newbie coder. > > I agree, esp since PalmPrint sucks. With a machine with 32 times the > memory and a 1200 DPI laser printer, I ought to be able to get better > output than my C=64. But I don't. > > IR Printing is the kind of thing that needs a free architecture. > Currently, there are at least three seperate printing programs. > That's fine as long as you just want to print from the basic 4 apps, > but 3rd parties who want printing have to choose one. So I am in the > situation that JFile will be supporting PalmPrint, but IRPrint gives > better output for everything else. > > A free software/OSS alternative would fix that problem, and if it were > set up to allow loadable modules for printer drivers, 3rd parties who > wanted to add support for specific printers could do so. And we > wouldn't have to load the drivers for ESC/P, etc into memory. > > I'd be willing to help on this, but I don't think I've got enough > either printing or palm coding knowledge to do it on my own. I do > have an IRDA-capable printer though. 8^) _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www4.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
