Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Ghostscript driver

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> But you still need a method to pass options to the ghostscript driver.
> An integer value for the printer model is in no way sufficient so this has
> to be changed.

I don't follow your logic.  Is there some shortage of integers that I'm
not aware of?

> The ghostscript uniprint driver uses those .upp files - I cannot judge at
> the moment if this would be an applicaple way to set the driver options
> but perhaps it'b be an alternative.

No, no, no.  I'm not trying to propose something new.  We already have
a file that contains the driver options.  ~/.gimp-1.1/printrc  Why do
we need more than that?  Maybe the location needs to change as we move
away from the Gimp, but other than that, it should be sufficient.

> > 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.
> 
> Shouldn't we leave this to the distributors? SuSE comes with a more or
> less nice printer configuration tool and AFAIK RedHat has one too.

What?  I've never used those tools, but my understanding was that they merely
configured the printcap file.  Since this is something completely different,
I don't see how these programs are relevant.

> Of course my last two remarks don't aply if you meant the case where you
> call gs from the commandline (or any GUI watever) and send raw printer
> data to the spooling system.

I think very few people will be calling gs directly from the command line.
Such people would by definition be experts and can manage to figure out the
correct options for themselves.

> This would have the same implications as
> mentioned previously on this list however. All this lpd/gs stuff
> with its stupid lack of passing options really sucks, always did so, but
> it's spread too far so we have to find a smooth solution...

I think a simple script which can read the printrc and translate that into
options for gs is pretty smooth.

Eric