Re: Cups printing problem

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 28 January 2006 03:41, Marty wrote:
>
> > Rob Blomquist wrote:
> >
> > > Apparently ESP Ghostscript is normally in a package called espgs,
> > > but there is nothing to be found with apt-get.
> > >
> > > Can some one dig me out of this pickle?
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
> > Try gs-esp.
>
>
> Oh cute!  Was there a valid reason to rename Mikes work?

I would guess it was done to have a uniform nomenclature for the three
different postscript implementations which are in Debian:

gs-esp - The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP version
gs-gpl - The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
gs-afpl - The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter

(gs-esp is a CUPS-optimized fork of gs-gpl and gs-afpl is the version
which is released by Artifex Software, Inc. under the AFPL license which
is "non-free" according to the Debian guidelines since it does not allow
commercial redistribution.)

Regards,
           Florian