Hi Andreas, On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 04:17:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Browsed through the Debian mailinglist archive concerning apsfilter. > Interesting ;-) Concerning your question ...
I guess it was not my question because I don't remember asking ;-) > BTW, best would be to contact the Debian Port Maintainer of the gs port > (I put him on Cc:) to perhaps include the same 3rd party driver as I did for > the FreeBSD port, to be generally in sync with apsfilters printer list. > This is a complete list of gs 6.01 supported printer + additional compiled in > 3rd party driver, see below ... I think we can have those drivers in the Debian package as well. Good to know who is working on it for FreeBSD. I think there is a lot of stuff which can be done to gs so perhaps we can join forces and get something running. For example I wanted to move the drivers out of the main binary (kind of plugins) but I did not have the time lately. RL is always in the way :( > Additionally he could add the contributed uniprint driver profiles, I got > from users (which are additionally distributed with apsfilter and simply can > be copied into gs libdir) I wonder if the copyright of those profiles is known. I like to include them but I think the ultimate way to improve all Ghostscript distributions is to shuffle it upstream. > Maybe it would be an advantage, if Matej could take over maintainership > of the gs port. My experience as owner of gs and apsfilter port in FreeBSD > is, that "it%s a good thing (tm)". So apsfilter and gs are in sync. But > that%s only a proposal. It%s not necessarily needed. If you want to take gs, Matej, I have no problem with that. I can always find enough work with other packages ;) > Look at the URLs in the Makefile, to see, what additional things I added t > FreeBSDs gs 6.01 port: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/print/ghostscript6/Makefile?rev=1.48 Thanks for the URL, I will take a look. > In short: > # Additional Drivers: > # http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html > HP8XX_DRV= gdevcd8.tar.gz The Debian package has a hp8xx driver from http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/ftp/gs-driver-distrib/hp8xxs13.zip. IIRC the hp880c driver is derived from it and was intended to move into the hp8xx sources. Also I think this driver is now included in gs 6.0. Sorry, I am tired so I don't want to check - I am just trying to get my email answered before I fall asleep. > # HPDJ, additional driver for HP PCL3 Printers, by Martin Lottermoser > # ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/ghostscript/pcl3/pcl3.html > HPDJ_DRV= hpdj-2.6.tar.gz The .deb has it as well. > # contributed uniprint profiles > CONTRIB_UPP= lqx70ch.upp lqx70cl.upp lqx70cm.upp \ > stc740ih.upp stc740p.upp stc740pl.upp We don't have that. > Before my holiday (next week) I will have the new release out. > > One major feature (it has lots) will be, that you can choose printer driver > specific options via lpr%s -C option, i.e.: > > lpr -C glossy:high:present file > > (use glossy paper, high resolution, presentation quality) Hmm, who pays for the paper ,-) > bin/apsfilter can easily be edited, to add further driver specific options, > I possibly forgot to add. > > BTW, Matej Vela, Debians apsfilter port maintainer has joined the apsfilter > developement team yesterday. I hope that we%ll do a fine job for you all now > and in the future ! I am sure he will. Thanks for sending me a copy. This information was very interesting for me... BTW: Is there an easy way to find out who is maintaining a port for FreeBSD? I mean to find the maintainer of gs, for example, you can go to http://packages.debian.org/gs, click on the newest package and you have the current maintainer. Is there something similar on the FreeBSD webpages? Friendly Torsten -- Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member
