Re: On using magicfilter and gs (was: Re: Laser Printer)
On 25 Nov 2004, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Nov 24 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I've always liked magicfilter.
>
> Add me to the list of such users. I've been using magicfilter for years and
> printing has not been a problem since then (when I used to run ghostscript
> manually with many options just to print my LaTeX papers to my advisor).
>
> I'm still quite happily using it and have not kept up with all this CUPS
> thing, simply because lpr(ng)+magicfilter works wonderfully for me right
> now.
>
> The only problem that I see is that, for my printer to give me the results
> I expect, I have to use gs-esp (because it has the pcl3 driver in it),
> while gs-gpl doesn't support it and going the route of using other drivers
> gives me terrible results, as I reported *quite* some time ago to the
> maintainer:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259075
>
> And while I am at it, it seems that this maintainer is a little bit
> unresponsive, since the other bug that I filed had the same destination,
> apparently (/dev/null):
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279266
I think the maintainer has gone away or lost interest; I emailed him
some time ago about version 2.3 but never got an answer. But it's quite
easy to compile oneself in /usr/local.
Anthony
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