Re: Developement of a new postcript converter.
Just forwarding to d-devel, since there is a packaging request
below. I did know about this driver, but I have a proper PCL printer, not
a PPA one.
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:30:03PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > Since HP recently made some moves into the open source arena, it might be
> > possible to persuade them to open up the remainder of their
> > specifications, on how to get photo colour (which, AFAIK, *none* the GS
> > drivers know how to do). If any of you have some programming time, I
> > suggest getting in contact with the author of the above, and possibly HP.
>
> By the way, there are new filters for the HP "Windows-Only" printers, like
> 720C, 710C, 820Cxi and 1000 series. The pbm2ppa converter was replaced by
> pnm2ppa which supports color, etc. now. Although it isn't that stable yet,
> I think it more interesting for most users than the old black-white filter,
> pbm2ppa. Does anymore want to package that?
>
> You can find pnm2ppa at http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322
>
> Greetings, Roland
>
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