Re: LPRng: Hello.

[James Richard Tyrer]

Patrick Powell wrote:

Right.  I am working on the following:

a) a configuration file for 'communication'
   This would be REALLY short.
b) PPD files (yech) for format and option control.

Now you have the problem of relating the PPD file to the format/option

Each printer would have a PPD file a la LinuxPrinting.org.

You would have a smaller set of stuff for 'communication' support,
which is really all that IFHP would need.
You could even be brutal and put the IFHP configuration in a PPD file entry.

This is currently in the works,  and I have already done most of the leg
work for the PPD file.  See Foomatic-RIP.
Sounds good.  My suggestion is that you do not mess up the PPD file with information for 
the GhostScript (or other) driver like Foomatic does -- the PPD should only contain 
information that an application (or middleware widget) using the printer needs -- the 
information which the driver for the printer needs should be in a configuration file.

Then for many simple printers you could have a program which generates a PPD file with the 
relevant information:

        Printer name
        Default resolution
        Resolutions supported
        Default paper size
        Paper sizes supported
        Printable area for Paper sizes supported
Like what you get from editing a generic PPD by hand.

And perhaps very simple additional things like paper bin numbers.

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JRT
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