On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Adriaan wrote: > On 7/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I > >have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian > >box but everyone there seems to use CUPS. I could just as easily > >connect the printer to my OBSD box. > > > Have a look at apsfilter. Simple to install as a pre-compiled binary > package. apsfilter needs ghostscript as well as a2ps. > There one small thing you may have to fix. a reference to gawk in the > SETUP script. I just changed it to "/usr/bin/awk". >
Thanks Adriaan, I'm familiar with apsfilter and actually just got it to work with this printer on my debian box with debian's stock gs-gpl. Part of my reason for asking on OBSD is that I'm exploring the larger issue of licensing. I know that OBSD folk tend to prefer stuff with a BSD license rather than that GPL. Apsfilter is GPL (plus a 'please send a postcard'). So I supposet a more specific but more general question would be: Is there a pure BSD-licensed print filtering option? Thanks, Doug.
