Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [Gimp-print-devel] An introduction to gnome-print (fwd)

[Ben Woodard <ben valinux com>]

> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:21:09PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 	1. Every driver consists of an XML file that describes the
> >            properties of the printer: name, vendor, shared object that
> >            implements it, unique features, features that need to pop
> >            up on a config dialog.
> 
> Didn't you just reinvent ppd files? :)
> 

The tricky part is getting PPD files to work with non-ps printers. I
spent a couple days recently seeing what it would take to enhance gs
drivers to handle many of the things that are commonly done in PPD
files. It appears non-trivial.

-ben

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