Hi,
Rose Humphrey wrote:
Anyway, to get back to computer CUPS (rather than a foaming glass of brew), a bit of research last night convinced me that CUPS, gimp print and/or Foomatic are all of great interest, but the best system for printing that also provides many drivers not available - or easily identifiable - elsewhere is Turboprint.
I'm not so convined about that. For one, TurboPrint is not openly available, and to the best of my knowledge, it hits the exec memory lists directly. Exec memory lists are evil and must be destroyed. The memory system I'm working on right now doesn't use them anymore (and as a result, it's doing constant time memory allocation in the average case, and is practically fragmentation free).
Besides, I'm not really content with the printing system as it is now. Basically, we have in AmigaOS a separation between screen graphics and printer graphics. This is artifiical, and should be avoided. For the future, we're looking into alternatives.
While I'm still all for CUPS, this does give food for thought.
You won't find many alternatives to CUPS, sadly.
Regards,