[cups.general] RE: CUPS & Ghostscript

[Helge Blischke]

run
	gs -h
which prints (besides other things) a complete list of the compiled-in
devices onto the screen. Modify the makefile(s) and leave only the 
devices needed by CUPS - cups, bbox (the latter may be usesful for 
accounting purposes). Perhaps you have to add on one or the other 
device the cups device depends on - I haven't tried it.

That sould siginificantly reduce the memory usage.

Helge

Guenther Frick wrote:
> 
> v.sudeep wrote:
> > oh !! Yes ofcourse ESP Ghostscript works perfectly well. (atleast I did not
> > have any problems). But it is extremely large. Inspite of all the obvious
> > minimisations that could be done, I could bring it down to only
> > approximately 11MB. I need the whole thing to be less than 3MB. That is the
> > reason for my needing to go for GNU Ghostscript.
> >
> > If there is some way that I could make ESP Ghostscript down to 3MB, I would
> > settle for ESP.
> >
> > PS: I am trying to bring up the print system for an Embedded System.
> >
> > - S u d e e p    V
> 
> I'm not an expert.
> The difference between ESP Ghostscript and GNU (now GPL) Ghostscript is
> the additional CUPS raster and the outdated stp device. The stp driver
> exists now outside of ESPGS under the name Gimp-Print. Like the stp driver
> there are a lot of other superfluous drivers, e. g. for old HP inkjet printers. I hope you are able to displace them one after the other as
> you need.

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