Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

[Malcolm Lear]

Since most QL software requiring printer output (all?) have either epson 
or postscript drivers, I should think a
combination of 'epsonps' (epson to postscript convertor) and ghostscript 
would be a possible solution. The list of
printers supported by  ghostscript  does seem quite impressive. Maybe 
the process can somehow be transparent
to the user.

Malcolm
Convert Postscript or whatever to Windows-only printer output. Why oh why couldn't these 
have all worked in the same way so that all printers could have a common 
driver - seems to contradict the very idea of standards if even in this day 
and age every single printer on the planet needs different software just like the very 
first home computers in the early 1980s did!
Now quite how the various stages are achieved is open to discussion of course 
(Proforma...device drivers, PFF_USE, pipes...), let the print experts on this 
list loose on the project with the end view in mind and let them argue among 
themselves as to the best way to do it!
 

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Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

[Joachim Van der Auwera]

James Hunkins wrote:
Typically I have found Postscript output to be relatively 
slow due to its complexity (I may be making an assumption here).
Correct, but PROforma will not be faster than postscript code of 
comparable complexity.

  - also I believe that most modern printers don't take postcript 
directly but the software translates the postscript to the printer's 
native language (I believe that this is what Ghostscript does?)
Correct.
Joachim
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Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

[gwicks]

- Original Message - 
From: Brian Kemmett
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005


The problem is Quanta IS JUST sitting on a stack of cash - I have
contributed to their coffers since 1986!
To Geoff Wicks, thanks for the concern, but you tell me, what can Quanta
do for me? - I live in a QL World black hole! The monthly mag was like a
lifeline but now I rely on QLToday because it is a vabrant, upbeat and
altogether more informative tome - and it gives breaking news on all
things QLish. QUANTA mag has become a shrivelled prune of its former self,
and as I have already said, the news is already old. So Geoff, what can
Quanta do for outlanders such as me?
At the moment sod all. And what worries me as a member of the Quanta 
committee is that people in a similar situation to you represent about one 
third of our membership.

I think if Quanta is to reform it must make more use of new technology, like 
actively participating in this list which is the quickest way of sounding 
out opinion. I know a lot of our members do not subscribe to the list, but I 
think it would make the committee more aware of what is happening in the QL 
community at large and provide topics for the magazine that would be of 
interest to members who do not have access to the internet.

At the moment the magazine editor is a member of the committee and perhaps 
we now also need a website editor on the committee. (That's a idea I have 
just had as a result of the discussion on this list.)

However I am sure the really important thing is to find a way of investing 
Quanta's money in QL development. When I raised this earlier this year I did 
not get many suggestions. Now the discussion is much more lively.

I don't want to play a game of ping pong with you by bouncing every question 
you ask back, but what things would you most like to see in your own QL use, 
and is there any way this could be done via Quanta?

I believe an organisation of 300 members with an income of £6000 a year and 
a capital of £16,000 is a highly viable organisation. Our problem is how to 
make it work more effectively for its members,

Best Wishes,
Geoff

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[ql-users] Byfleet 2004

[Ken Bain]

Hi
Hope we'.ll see you at Byfleet 2004 on Sun 28 November.
The 'public' hours are 10am to 4 pm.
The hall will be open for setting up at 08h30, and we are expected to clear 
by 16h30.
There have been some refurbishments - there are now more power outlets, 
including 3 doubles each side of the big hall.
'How to get there' info is on www.sadeye.co.uk., if you've missed the other 
sources.
Have a good day!
Ken Bain

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