Re: GNOME and printing

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Ali,

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 12:07, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> 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.

	My understanding about CUPS was that while it does try to do a lot, the
bits we would use would be more oriented to printer / capability
discovery than rendering.

	Then again, I was probably smoking crack. I was under the impression
that there is some interfacing standard that CUPS implements that we
should use - but not neccessarily with their implementation, and that
someone else - perhaps HP/IBM is writing a split out / separate /
improved library to handle this protocol.

	Perhaps someone can clear the haze for me ?

	Regards,

		Michael.

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