Re: [DNG] PostScript [was: printing in a D-Bus free system]

2018-03-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 17/03/2018 à 13:35, Erik Christiansen a écrit : On 16.03.18 01:18, Didier Kryn wrote:     It is always tricky to properly scale the drawing on the page: although svg has no explicit dimension, the applications all seem to assume it has some, and it's never the one which makes the image match

Re: [DNG] PostScript [was: printing in a D-Bus free system]

2018-03-17 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 16.03.18 01:18, Didier Kryn wrote: >     It is always tricky to properly scale the drawing on the page: although > svg has no explicit dimension, the applications all seem to assume it has > some, and it's never the one which makes the image match the page size of > the printer. Maybe the easies

Re: [DNG] PostScript [was: printing in a D-Bus free system]

2018-03-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/03/2018 à 00:19, KatolaZ a écrit : In summary, yes, the transformations PDF-to-PostScript and PostScript-to-PDF are possible, but while the end results may be similar, they are by no means identical. For more on PostScript and PDF, see the extensive bibliography at http://www.math

Re: [DNG] Postscript (Was: printing in a D-Bus free system)

2018-03-15 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk): > PostScript is a rather nice language to learn. It's designed to be > human writeable (human readable when it's machine generated is another > matter) and fully device independent. And it's stack based - uses RPN > which I quite like. Also, after

Re: [DNG] Postscript (Was: printing in a D-Bus free system)

2018-03-15 Thread Simon Hobson
k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> Is it possible to print and scan on an older hp network printer without >> hplip/dbus? It supports LPR/PS but I have never been able to get it to >> work properly (ie: with the extra paper trays, duplexer, dpi settings >> etc) are there any good guides for this? > >