Re: A strawman proposal for X.org & XFree86.org

Ross Vandegrift <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:40:22PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> | Xprint is somewhat used - it's a seperate X server that
> | "displays" by creating postscript and pcl print jobs, for simple addition
> | of printing to an X application using the same API, much like MacOS &
> | Windows printing. Mozilla can print to it, as can some versions of
> | OpenOffice.)
> 
> Isn't CUPS designed to replace this?

No, not even close.  CUPS is a abomination of a replacement for the printer
spooling system.

Xprint is an X server that draws X primitives to PostScript output
instead of a display.

Very different beasts.

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
[email protected]

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