Re: Gutenprint Code Question
Bacon At Taha <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:36:26 -0400
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Thank you both very much! Erik Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 29, 2024, at 08:45, Michael Sweet via Gimp-print-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Solomon/Erik, > >> On Oct 28, 2024, at 10:15 PM, Solomon Peachy via Gimp-print-devel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 12:19:44PM -0400, Erik Beck of Tahoma wrote: >>> What does 'STP' mean in Gutenprint? It is the prefix for a vast number >>> of variables, types, etc in the code (either in all caps or all >>> lowercase). I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean "standard temperature and >>> pressure", nor "spanning tree protocol", nor "Science, Technology, >>> Performance (as in STP motor fuel additives)". >> >> That dates back to the before times, when the codebase was a standalone >> command line raster image processor. > > I *think* Robert used the prefix STP because the first drivers he worked on were for the EPSON Stylus Photo printer (STP), but I'm not 100% sure. That all got done after Robert took over the original Gimp-Print plugin I did (the "before before times") and I've only had a sporadic involvement since then... > > ________________________ > Michael Sweet > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-print-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel _______________________________________________ Gimp-print-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel