[Gimp-print-devel] Ghostscript driver

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

I took Henryk's stuff and hacked it into 3.1.  It went in without too
much grief.  I haven't tested it yet.

I've moved it back into the main print directory.  The files that
aren't GS-specific are built by means of 'make ghost' at top level
after aclocal;autoconf;automake;configure.  So this means maintaining
only one source base from now on.

The one thing that will have to be taken care of is this .36" business
(in softweave mode the printing starts further down on the page than
in microweave mode).  The current solution's too ad hoc, and won't
work for printers with different print head configurations.  The right
answer is to fix this in the escp2 driver.

Anyway, I'm now one step closer to being able to dump Print Pro and
get back to "real" Unix printing.

Depending upon how good our dithering engine is compared with that of
some of the other drivers, it might eventually be tempting to do much
the same thing with other printers, at least temporarily (remember, in
the long run we want to largely get rid of all our fine work!).

This doesn't count as a milestone yet, because it isn't tested, but
it's getting there...

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