On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:08:26PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
My need is for postscript to pcl6 for the printer we have, currently I
run ghostscript under linuxemu which works but I I would prefer to have
a working native port.
Since I had to try to print to an HP with PCL (in fact, with
Thinking of tackeling ghostscript again but failed at the first hurdle,
it needs autotools to build...
Anyone attempted this?
-Steve
On Fri May 3 10:19:43 EDT 2013, st...@quintile.net wrote:
Thinking of tackeling ghostscript again but failed at the first hurdle,
it needs autotools to build...
oh please do!
one question, though. are there better alternatives than ghostscript
for pdf? ghostscript usually fails for simple
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:22:13AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
one question, though. are there better alternatives than ghostscript
evince is a poppler frontend; poppler's problematic dependencies include
glib and cmake. poppler is descended from xpdf, whose problematic
dependencies are
Thinking of tackeling ghostscript again but failed at the first hurdle,
it needs autotools to build...
Anyone attempted this?
Ghostscript 8.53 was already using autotools, but Russ Cox wrote a
mkfile for it when he ported it to Plan 9.
The current mkfile is already able to compile Ghostscript
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:18:40PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
Thinking of tackeling ghostscript again but failed at the first hurdle,
it needs autotools to build...
Plan A, create a SmallScript borrowing the rasterizing routines of
METAFONT and not aiming to be a full PostScript interpreter.
...and how does that help me read a pre-existing PDF document?
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On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:18:40PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
Thinking of tackeling ghostscript again but failed at the first hurdle,
it needs autotools to build...
Plan A, create a SmallScript borrowing the
Is a PS/PDF library something that might benefit from reconstruction in Go?
Or is it just a spaghetti mess?
What about mupdf? It has few dependecies [1]
http://mupdf.com/doc/
[1] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;a=tree;f=thirdparty;hb=HEAD
pmarin.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:16 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote:
On Fri May 3 13:15:41 EDT 2013, knapj...@gmail.com wrote:
Is a
On May 3, 2013, at 12:16 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Fri May 3 13:15:41 EDT 2013, knapj...@gmail.com wrote:
Is a PS/PDF library something that might benefit from reconstruction in Go?
Or is it just a spaghetti mess?
go or c, a fresh implementation might be an
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:14:18AM -0800, Jack Johnson wrote:
Is a PS/PDF library something that might benefit from reconstruction in Go?
Or is it just a spaghetti mess?
Whatever the way (porting existing to Go or writing from scratch), a Go
version would be an improvement against a C++ one
But in this case, there are
probably online PDF viewers...
But no Plan 9 browsers.
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Aram Hăvărneanu
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:10:26PM +0200, Aram H?v?rneanu wrote:
But in this case, there are
probably online PDF viewers...
But no Plan 9 browsers.
Yes... But this is also why, concurrently, work has to be done to get
rid of some unnecessities: that documents produced on Plan9 be viewable
Yes... But this is also why, concurrently, work has to be done to get
rid of some unnecessities: that documents produced on Plan9 be viewable
on Plan9 with only Plan9 means (external documents are another problem).
ghostscript already renders plan 9 produced pdf just fine.
so that problem is
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:38 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.comwrote:
Yes... But this is also why, concurrently, work has to be done to get
rid of some unnecessities: that documents produced on Plan9 be viewable
on Plan9 with only Plan9 means (external documents are another
Russ Cox wrote a
mkfile for it when he ported it to Plan 9.
thanks,
yes I looked at ghostscript a year or two ago but they seem
to have changed their directory layout and modifying the mkfile
was not straightforward.
My need is for postscript to pcl6 for the printer we have, currently I
run
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