[SunRescue] What Gem did I find?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Ghostscript claims that at least one printer uses them instead of
Postscript to save on the licensing fees.


--
Joshua Boyd

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> jon at jonworld.com writes:
> 
> >That stinks-- that's what 'winprinters' do today and those stink. I like
> >printers that do postscript in the printer. *sigh* why can't *all* printers
> >do that?
> 
> Historicly, because it took an expensive degree of "oompf" (no longer
> an issue) and the licensing fees for Adobe were a little steep (no longer
> an issue, given ghostscript (*are* there any GS based printers?)). I 
> would assume the Adobe licensing fees have become much much cheaper 
> anyways.
> 
> I have mixed feelings about PS on the printer. For most files, it's killer,
> but for some things it's better to run postscript on your host and have
> a dumb-frame-buffer style printer.
> 
> Any PS printer should be capable of that mode of operation though, so
> yeah, all printers should be postscript. :-)
> 
> There's one trick I like to use for font manipulation that's illegal
> in postscript, not for any technical reason, but for copyright fears
> from the font houses (you *could* use this trick to copy raw font data
> off a printer back to the host), but is legal under ghostscript.
> 
> -- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --
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