*- On 7 Apr, Gary Singleton wrote about "What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?"
> With all the discussion about these two over the last
> couple of days I have to ask what the advantage of
> gs-aladdin is (if any)? I read the FAQ on Wisconsin's
> home for Ghostscript and in section 1.3 it states that
> the only difference is in licensing. The only
> difference there is apparently that the Aladdin
> license prohibits _any_ commercial distribution. If
> this is correct, why would someone choose to run
> gs-aladdin over gs? I _must_ be missing something.
>
For me it is the addition by the gs-aladdin maintainer of the HP Deskjet
driver.
>From gs-aladdin package description,
.
This package also contains the hpdj driver contributed by
Martin Lottermoser.
and from the gs-hpdj man page,
DESCRIPTION
Scope
The ghostscript device driver hpdj is a ghostscript back
end for printers understanding Hewlett-Packard's Printer
Command Language, Level 3 (PCL-3). It is intended to sup
port in particular the following printer models:
HP DeskJet 500
HP DeskJet 500C
HP DeskJet 510
HP DeskJet 520
HP DeskJet 540
HP DeskJet 550C
HP DeskJet 560C
HP DeskJet 850C
HP DeskJet 855C
I use it with the 660c but it works great, much better than the dj550
driver that is in the free gs.
--
Brian
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