Re: The future of Gutenprint (warning: long and opinionated)
Zdenek Dohnal via Gimp-print-devel <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:57:27 +0100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1301917597844703079== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------Kedm4h5dfW09izyv6Mb0rErE" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------Kedm4h5dfW09izyv6Mb0rErE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Roy, On 3/18/25 02:04, Roy Harrington wrote: > What seems like a good feature would be a relatively simple way to > just open a printer-name and have > a simple connection to send a byte stream to the printer. Basically > like the old " | lpr -o raw -P printer" > Seems like this is the print application idea but without needing all > the IPP knowledge and code. > Is there an IPP equivalent? Would it be possible to easily do this? AFAIK current PAPPL supports raw socket functionality, which does the same as raw queue - just sends data to the printer. Zdenek > > Thanks > Roy Harrington > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM Michael Sweet via Gimp-print-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Believe me, I understand your feelings entirely! :) > > WRT the separate printer applications, I'm available as a resource > whether you just have questions about PAPPL or need changes made > to it. I might even have some time to contribute some code... > > ________________________ > Michael Sweet > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-print-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel > > > > -- > Roy Harrington > [email protected] > www.harrington.com <http://www.harrington.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-print-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel -- Zdenek Dohnal Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC --------------Kedm4h5dfW09izyv6Mb0rErE Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Roy,<br> </div> <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br> </div> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/18/25 02:04, Roy Harrington wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAF4x=M+o9DaWv31V6hytYEMo+CHDHNHFgafsgbEjbd8Vb7VBjA@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <div>What seems like a good feature would be a relatively simple way to just open a printer-name and have</div> <div>a simple connection to send a byte stream to the printer. Basically like the old " | lpr -o raw -P printer"</div> <div>Seems like this is the print application idea but without needing all the IPP knowledge and code.</div> <div>Is there an IPP equivalent? Would it be possible to easily do this?</div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>AFAIK current PAPPL supports raw socket functionality, which does the same as raw queue - just sends data to the printer.</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Zdenek<br> </p> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAF4x=M+o9DaWv31V6hytYEMo+CHDHNHFgafsgbEjbd8Vb7VBjA@mail.gmail.com"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks</div> <div>Roy Harrington</div> <div><br> </div> </div> <br> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM Michael Sweet via Gimp-print-devel <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br> Believe me, I understand your feelings entirely! :)<br> <br> WRT the separate printer applications, I'm available as a resource whether you just have questions about PAPPL or need changes made to it. I might even have some time to contribute some code...<br> <br> ________________________<br> Michael Sweet<br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Gimp-print-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a><br> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <div><br clear="all"> </div> <div><br> </div> <span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Roy Harrington<br> <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a><br> <a href="http://www.harrington.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">www.harrington.com</a><br> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">_______________________________________________ Gimp-print-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Zdenek Dohnal Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC</pre> </body> </html> --------------Kedm4h5dfW09izyv6Mb0rErE-- --===============1301917597844703079== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============1301917597844703079== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Gimp-print-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel --===============1301917597844703079==--