Practicalites of non-DSC-conformant (Windows) PostScript

[John A. Murdie]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> I have hacked two filters which (nearly) successfully fix the DSC violations
> of the Windows PostScript generators (one filter for the NT4 kernel mode thing
> and one for the newer use mode driver for W2K and higher). But as we - in both
> cases - use the CUPS modified drivers (which pass options via the %cupsJobTicket:
> comments) we had to slightly modify the scheduler. This is the reason why we hesitated
> to publish these two filters; it would be desirable to have configurable
> prefilters (like requested by another poster recently).
>
> But if your life depends on such a beast, contact me off the list.
>
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
> SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
> http://www.srz.de

Thank you very much for the offer, Helge. I will have to think about it, as the matter seems complicated. (Though it's obviously a good solution for you.) I will see how successful I am at writing mime.types rules which recognise Windows PostScript, when I next have some time!

John A. Murdie