[Info-vax] Ghostscript update posted

[Mark Berryman]

This forum needs a posting actually related to VMS...

I recently acquired an Epson inkjet printer when heretofore I have 
always used laser printers.  This printer is somewhat limited in the 
document formats that it accepts as shown here:

document-format-supported: application/octet-stream, image/pwg-raster, 
image/urf, image/jpeg

So I grabbed a copy of ghostscript 10.03.0 and added support for the 
pwgraster device to my port.  It is available at 
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/ghostscript-10_03_0.zip ( I really 
need to reorganize this some day...)

Now, if I want to send a postscript or pdf file to this printer, the 
process is:

$ gs -sDEVICE=pwgraster -r360 -dcupsBitsPerColor=8 -dcupsColorSpace=19 
-o something.ras something.ps
$
$ ipp print something.ras 
/device="ipp://epson/ipp/print"/document="image/pwg-raster"
$

If I want to send a compiler listing file to this printer (which doesn't 
even support text/plain) I can do the following:

$ enscript --output=out.ps --lineprinter --font=Courier at 9/7 --landscape 
--highlight-bar-gray=0.9 --highlight-bars=3 file.lis

which gives me a postscript file that I can rasterize and print.

I seem to remember a old print symbiont around somewhere that could 
execute commands on a file before printing it.  I think I'll try to find 
and resurrect it.

Mark Berryman