Re: GNOME and printing

[LJ <king_6 gmx net>]

Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> hi, my opinion about cups. it sucks. i run kde myself these days but i dont
> use cups. it uses an old ghostscript rippoff for their raster2ps stuff without
> any possibilities to have it used in ghostview (either ggv or kghostview) this
> makes it necessary to install ghostscript aswell. also the driver support for
> the old ghostscript version sucks. but this shouldnt hold you to freely
> implement CUPS support for gnome. in worst case you still need a valid
> ghostscript besides cups and i dont see the point of having cups and
> ghostscript laying around on my system.
I don't think a double installation of Ghostscript should prevent you 
from using a modern printing system.
Anyway, I found this statement (http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.html):

"<snip> With the increasing number of Linux distributions shipping, or 
considering shipping CUPS as their standard printing system, we have had 
many requests to provide patches to the standard GNU Ghostscript source 
distribution so that they can ship a single version of Ghostscript.

Thanks to funding from EPSON, this has finally happened. Easy Software 
Products now produces maintenance updates of GNU Ghostscript under the 
name ESP Ghostscript. </snip>"

> you are at least right with one of your statements "it SEEMS to become the
> standard' hopefully it wont. the majority of people still use a lpr or lprng
> together with apsfilter.
I'm sorry that I have to disappoint you: According to 
http://www.cups.org/, CUPS is the primary printing system of Red Hat, 
Mandrake, Caldera, Conectiva, easyLinux, Lycoris and other Linux 
distributions.
And those who use lpr or lprng should have no problems with CUPS, since 
it provides both System V and BSD style command line tools.