Re: VNC Protocol | Adding Printing
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From: Charles I. K. <ch...@re...> - 2002-10-10 23:50:08
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Hello, On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:31, Greg Breland wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 17:13, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:04, Greg Breland wrote: > > > I think implementing local printing into VNC would be a great addition, > > > but please consider how difficult this will be. Microsoft just recently > > > got printing support into RDP5 and they make the OS! > > > > I don't know much about RDP5. What made it so difficult. > > > > I don't know, but that was the main reason users bought Citrix at an > extra $1000 per seat. It had client side printing. It also has > shadowing(watching a users session) and Does the shadowing keep a log of what each user does? (Or does it do something else?) > load balancing which RDP5 still doesn't have. How does the Load Balancing work? [...] > > What's ICA? > > > > > > ICA is the protocol that Citrix uses to send screen updates from their > Citrix server product. Citrix runs on top of Windows Terminal Services > and on Solaris and is the fastest most efficient protocol I know of. It > is quite usable over a 14.4 modem. Does it have layer support. (Because that's something that would be nice if the VNC protocol had. Well, that combined with [full and partial] transparency.) Is there any documentation or papers on that protocol? (I know I'm getting a bit off topic.) > > > Just have the server generate PS and > > > then print it locally. I have yet to run into a printer that can't > > > handle PS so use it as the universal format. > > > > Most InkJet printers don't. But we have GhostScript... so we can > > use that to print PostScript on the client end. > > > > Argh. GhostScript is cool, but it is very big too. I would look for a > simpler lighter solution. For Linux, no problem because it is almost a > required install, but for Win32 you need something simpler. Do you have any suggestions? (I don't know of any other open sourced PostScript interpreters.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, BSc ch...@re... ________________________________________________________________________ Reptile Consulting & Services 604-REPTILE http://www.reptile.ca/ |