Re: [coLinux-devel] Virtual Device Drivers

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>>>   - Virtual Printer driver
>>>          print documents from coLinux through Windows.
>>>          this is easy if you rasterize rightly.
>>>          so if you can print on linux logically,
>>>          ( solving font, cups/ghostscript settings...)
>>>          you can print on coLinux physically.
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>> this can be done already using samba, but a post script virtual printer
>> on
>> the windows side seems the easiest.  perhaps have a virtual printer
>> device
>> that says it's PS compatible and have it pass the PS file to ghost
>> script
>> in the host OS.
>>
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> I think adobe has a post script virtual printer. I think I saw this
> mentioned in the cups documentation. I'll have to check on that It may
> even be free.

Sorry, I should have checked first that adobe driver is a postscript
dirver for using cups or lpd as the print server and windows as the
client. Setting up a samba printer is as easy as installing the printer
directly to linux.

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