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Re: Apsfilter, Deskjet 540, RHL 4.0 and Ghostscript Problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill D)
Fri Nov 1 16:55:14 1996
From: Bill D <billd@voicenet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:53:30 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961101075837.3567A-100000@glink.glcom.com> from "Info junkie" at Nov 1, 96 07:59:50 am
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Info junkie wrote:
> I am just curious why anyone would wanna use apsfilter when the printool
> in redhat seems to do the same job?
> Or is the printool an alias for apsfilter?
printool formats ordinary ascii text as postscript, then calls ghostscript
to do the actual printing. Ghostscript being rather resource-intensive,
this seems kinda like using a thermonuclear device to kill cockroaches.
Bill
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