Re: Braille printers drivers
Hi. Nfbtrans can be used in a pipe. It's free, but not GPL. I don't know the license for turbobraille, but it might already be GPL.
i don't know if it can use pipes. I'll check with the turbobraille author and find out. I believe he uses either Debian or ubuntu, but don't think he's on this list.
kenny
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:17:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Kenny Hitt, le Thu 29 May 2008 05:06:21 -0500, a écrit :
> > Normally, the difference with Braille printers is the format of the file.
>
> Just like any other printer.
>
> > The text will need to be converted to brf first.
>
> Just like .pdf usually need to be converted to .ps first.
>
> > This user uses turbobraille to translate the file before printing. nfbtrans will also work to translate to and from brf file format.
>
> Then why not including them to cups?
>
> lp foo.txt
>
> looks faster to me than
>
> nfbtrans foo.txt foo.brf
> lp foo.brf
> rm -f foo.brf
>
> Just like
>
> lp foo.pdf
>
> is faster than
>
> pdf2ps foo.pdf foo.ps
> lp foo.ps
> rm -f foo.ps
>
> (modulo the syntax of nfbtrans which I don't know)
>
> Alternatively, nfbtrans could send the output to the printer directly,
> but just running lp foo.txt should be the right way to go...
>
> Samuel
>
>
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