Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Ghostscript driver

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<gripe>
Andy, is it really necessary to send HTML to the mailing list when plain
text will do fine?  I find it really annoying when mh spawns lynx to read
a web page that's been mailed to me and there's nothing but text on it.
</gripe>

> I've looked over the ghostscript driver part in order to see how the canon
> driver could be added. The gs driver uses the option "Model" being an integer
> value. How about changing this to string and check it against printers->drive
> r
> (which is unique for any printer model as I get it).

I've been thinking about this and I'm not sure that that's the best way to
go.

What I think should be done is to write a simple shell script which can
parse the user's saved printer configuration and call ghostscript with
the appropriate options.  This shell script can be used as an input
filter in the printcap file. Whether the options are numerical or string
is largely irrelevant then, since the user would not need to see them.

In addition to this, we would probably also need a standalone GUI/ncurses/
commandline printer configurator, for those people who don't want to run
the Gimp/X11/interactively, but that doesn't sound that hard to do.

Unfortunately, I have no time for the next two weeks.

Eric