Bob, You don't directly use a printer driver to generate content for other printers, so what you suggest is a little misleading. I understand the Microsoft printing interface having done some coding myself. There are drawing and publishing libraries out there that will do what you want and produce vector or raster imaging depending on what output you're attempting. You can then reformat that using other tools/libraries. The Ghostscript libraries are very powerful and there are a lot of format, or "device", output options included. The key with the GS/GPDL library is that everything gets processed as vector graphics. It is, afterall, based on Postscript. Bitmaps are not handled that well, so PCL output can get bloated. The GPDL library is getting better for PCL2PS conversion, but it's still not perfect. I would note that your best success will probably come from generating Postscript content in your tools and then leveraging the GS libs to output PCL, inkjet, jpeg, etc output. I also suggest you stop by #ghostscript on irc.freenode.net and chat with the devs if you're looking for a Microsoft-like drawing and formatting library replacement. While it may be off-topic, I'm sure someone will suggest a few options. There also is a user and dev mailing list if you're not IRC-inclined. Don't forget about Tetex and/or LaTex markup conversion possibilities too.
---------------------------------------- Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ---------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:59 AM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font > > On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: > > > > > Just about everything gets converted to PostScript by CUPS and > filters, so > > I don't follow you. > > My understanding is that CUPS deals with things at a job level, but not at > a graphical element level. So for instance, if I have a TIF file I can > feed it to CUPS as such, and the filters in CUPS can convert it to > PostScript, if that's what's needed. > > But suppose I want to draw a red line from point A to point B on a page. > Then I want to print in Arial 23 point bold, rotated 15 degrees. A Windows > printer driver lets me do that, and have it come out correctly on > thousands of kinds of printers. I don't believe CUPS gives me that fine > level of control. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Regards, > ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. > > personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com > company e-mail: r...@anzio.com > voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) > fax: (US) 503-624-0760 > web: http://www.anzio.com > street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. > 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 > Portland, OR 97223 USA > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
