No need to pipe to gs manually. The spooler uses CUPS which invokes GS (unless printing to a PostScript printer).
And yes, you can do this from the terminal. E.g. under Gnome you would use gtklp instead of plain lp, which even brings up a nice dialog IIRC. - Bert - On 16.04.2010, at 21:17, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > > Bert, > > One thing working in my favor is that I am selecting the distribution(s) and > would have fairly tight control over the machines. > > By "the command" is it safe to assume that one would pipe PostScript into gs > and then into a spooler? Put another way, if I had a .ps file, I could do > all this from a terminal?? If that is true, I am starting to get it. > > Thanks! > > Bill > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bert > Freudenberg > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:40 PM > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Linux graphics for Windows > programmers?? > > On 16.04.2010, at 20:20, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> Are there any good tutorials that explain the transition from Windows to >> Linux with respect to graphics (device contexts, etc.)? I am especially >> interested in frameworks for printing, and wrappers that provide a canvas >> interface to a printer. I found a copy of Sophie 1.04 that has some code in >> Sophie-Printing. Is there anything else I should study? > > Under Linux, the lingua franca for printing is PostScript. So if you can > generate a PostScript file you're almost settled. How to send this to the > printer is unfortunately dependent on the environment - you need to make the > command configurable, and perhaps make a good guess at a default. > > PostscriptCanvas is a place to start, but depending on your app's needs might > require some fiddling. OTOH, writing PS files from scratch isn't that hard > either. > > - Bert - > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
