[cups.development] CUPS, raster, CRD/CSA, ...

Aurélien Croc aurelien at ap2c.org
Sun Feb 3 08:24:29 PST 2008


Le Sunday 03 February 2008 17:16:01 Michael Sweet, vous avez écrit :
> > ...
> >
> >> Mac OS X doesn't come with Ghostscript.  Instead, Apple uses Adobe's
> >> distiller technology via the pstopdf program, which then runs through
> >> cgpdftoraster.
> >
> > Of course i understand. But for compatibility reasons, it would logical
> > to make a pseudo-filter with the same name. It seems that pstocupsraster
> > does the trick. Why did you added the word "cups" in its name? pstoraster
> > would be very good for the compatibility.
>
> ... but would have made it harder to install a Ghostscript with the
> cups raster driver...

No no no, it's not  i wanted to say. I tought about a pseudo filter which does 
what it wants but convert a ps into a raster. It can call the Apple distiller 
technology etc. Since you have a pstopdf and cgpdftoraster, it seems to be 
quite easy..


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