[cups.general] gs for ps only.

[Helge Blischke]

v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com wrote:
> 
> So is there a easy way of removing linkages to these image libraries, if I
> want to restrict myself to ps files printing only.
> 
> - S u d e e p    V
> Unless you jump from the frying pan to the fire, all you get is a raw deal.

Nothing but trial and error.

Helge

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com]On Behalf
> Of Helge Blischke
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:51 PM
> To: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] gs for ps only.
> 
> v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > I want to build and use gs as a pure postscript file interpreter. It seems
> > that the gs sources are closely interwoven with the jpeg, png etc
> libraries.
> > And at the same time not losing the ability to include all the existing
> > printer drivers.
> >
> > We did try to exclude the jpeg , png make files from the makefile.in, but
> > this seemed to result in errors while compiling some of the ghostscript
> core
> > files.
> >
> Be careful when tweaking the makefile(s). For example, the jpeg library
> is needed to implement the DCTEncode and DCTDecode filters which are
> part of
> the PostScript core.
> 
>

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