Re: q´s ad adding driver to ghostscript
> >Hi!
Servus!
> >
> >Please forgive any (more or less) ignorance, I´m not so new to
> > debian/gnu/linux, but it´s the first time I hit the printing and
> > apt-get source themes.
Well, probably, I'm not the right one to answer this, but I'll give it
a try.
> >
> >1: If I checked the docs[0] right, I have to compile ghostscript myself
> > to get an additional driver[1] into it?
Yes, AFAIK, unless you use the unified printer driver (uniprint, I
think to remember). These use external configuration files. In any
case, gs comes with many printers precompiled. Are you sure you can't
find a compatible one which works for you?
> >1a: How would one go for that on a debian[2] system? apt-get source gs;
> > <make changes as in [3]>; make; make install; ?
This seems to be a logical approach; but I would download the last
sources from the gs site and install into /usr/local. As soon as
debian includes this driver, it'll be easy to drop it. Maybe you can
ask the debian maintainer?
> >2: What drawbacks are there for a self-compiled gs (other than not
> > being apt-get upgrade-able)?
If there weren't, what are the debian developers for? They manage to
integrate everything nicely and don't allow things to break, no matter
what you do (at least they try to ;-).
> >
> >If anyone has additional pointers to get the printer, one gs works,
> >also up&running for M$-clients via samba, I´d be most grateful, also
> >;-) But I´ll dig into that once I printed my first page locally...
AFAIK, gs is not involved in printig via Samba; you could specify a
generic postscript printer in Windows and send that to gs; but
generally you get better quality by using the Windows driver from the
manufacturer and printing to a raw printer.
HTH a bit.
Christoph Simon
ciccio@prestonet.com.br
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