On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:42:15PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > I should have mentioned that the version of gs i was referring is the 5.10-11 > (the gs present in sid).
yes i tried that too. > You could make a try to compile the sid version... i did, same result. > The color option is nice, but i think a laser ps printer should be a better > choice > for me too... i have gotten a few messages saying the color does not work very spectacularly anyway. i am just going to find a used apple laserwriter or some other true postscript printer. i don't want to rebuild half the distribution from scratch and maintain it all manually just to keep this bloody thing working. <rant> whose ingenious idea was it to move from using a open standard like postscript where the printer needs nothing more then postscript data which allows for it to work perfectly under ANY OS that supports postcript. to making each and every printer (and submodel thereof) have its very own proprietary language requiring its very own special driver. talk about absurd wheel reinvention, endless wheel reinvention... </rant> -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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