Roger Leigh rleigh-at-whinlatter.ukfsn.org |bugs-debian| wrote: > Thomas Prokosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I just found this package and have asked myself what it does. >>I do have Gutenprint installed and running, I have Ghostscript >>in use, so what is the package about? > > The description could be improved. I'll fix this for the next upload.
Thanks. I appreciate that. > ijsgutenprint is an IJS server (driver), which communicates with > Ghostscript (IJS client) using the IJS (InkJet Server) communications > protocol. IJS is a method for separating ghostscript drivers from > ghostscript, to allow ghostscript to be more extensible. This description tells me what ijsgutenprint is, but I still do not know what it does. I do not know whether I should install it when I do not know what problem it tries to solve. I understand that Ghostscript executes Postscript commands and uses them for building up a raster representation of the page. The format of the raster representation is defined either by internal Ghostscript drivers or by external drivers which are accessed via the IJS communications protocol. > The lack of a good description is basically because ijsgutenprint is > not something an end user should use directly; tools like apsfilter > should take care of the setup for you. Or (better) use CUPS with > cupsys-driver-gutenprint. Is cupsys-driver-gutenprint functionally equivalent to ijsgutenprint? I do have cupsys-driver-gutenprint installed, and I don't quite get it where the ijsgutenprint package belongs in the overall picture. As you say an end user should not install it, so I was curious which packages install ijsgutenprint as a dependency: % apt-cache rdepends ijsgutenprint ijsgutenprint Reverse Depends: ijsgimpprint gutenprint-doc foomatic-db-gutenprint The only interesting package seems to be foomatic-db-gutenprint, which I don't use but leads me to the conclusion that ijsgutenprint and cupsys-driver-gimpprint are functionally equivalent. As a sidenote, I have installed and read gutenprint-doc and libgutenprint-doc before filing this bug report. Unfortunately Gutenprint documentation is a little bit thin as far as the Gutenprint architecture is concerned. Thanks for your patience, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
