Re: An Idea...

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> For what the drivers are concerned, I still think ghostscript should be
> used for the non-postscript printers. As it includes already a lot of
> good drivers, the missing features such as "econofast" could easily be
> added to the existing drivers. For example the Epson Stylus driver in gs
> contains code to manage "MicroWeave technology" of those printers...
> Ghostscript is GNU software and so it could and should be enhanced in
> the same philosophy.

Ghostscript's imaging model does not include alpha channel
composition, so this forces people interested in that sort of
technology to roll their own rasterizers.

gnome-print addresses that.

Miguel.