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From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Printers
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:47:02 GMT
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eurgain AT enterprise DOT net (Alistair Hamilton) wrote:
>Printing is a piece of cake in Windows. Maybe this is the best
>argument in favout of Turbo C++ Win, yet!

>Now, there's a challenge, you bright folks!

Well, as has been said before, the closest thing to a GNU printer
driver is Ghostscript - and what a monster! We've got GNU database
libraries, even binary file libraries, so why not a simple
raster/vector print library? Feed it a string of simple graphics
primitives and away it goes?

I guess there should really be a true GNU graphics library, completely
hardware independent. /Is/ there? I hear of libsvga from Linux, libgrx
from DJGPP, and little else... both are kinda PC-oriented. Well I
suppose there's the X window system, but yet again, what a monster!

>Alistair.

ABW



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