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Bug#855219: ghostscript: Please add gspcl



Hi Patrik,

Quoting Patrik Schindler (2017-02-15 16:40:47)
> The GhostScript project also offers gspcl, which does the same with 
> PCL-Data as GhostScript does with PostScript. There's no package for 
> Debian and implementing this seems to be not so trivial, because gspcl 
> generates the same scripts as ghostscript itself (ps2pdf and the 
> like).
> 
> Please add gspcl to Debian. :-) Thanks!

Thanks for reporting this!

I have not yet inspected closely, but it might be that those are the 
_same_ scripts: at the source level, gspcl is a superset of gs.

Upstream has warned me that gspcl us unlikely to be possible to provide 
with Debian due to a core requirement of fonts not freely available.  
Might still be possible to build gs and gspcl together, ship gs in main 
and the gspcl-specific parts in contrib - with a separate source package 
for non-free fonts (if those are legal to distribute there at all).

Just curious: What are your concrete needs for gspcl?


 - Jonas

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