found solutions, PS printer emulation [was: Re: printing to XP]

[Lewi Kristianto]

just found this night,
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/heretrythis/hp3100/psemu.html

from http://www.linuxprinting.org/indexdoc.html
title: 
"Make a Windows-Connected Printer look like a
Network-Shareable PostScript Printer"

I think this solution will be acceptable for now, 
waiting for more printer vendor to get natively works
for linux

thank you all, 
I will try in Monday to see if it's works for me, 
and I can post here the result

great community! 
great open source community!

--- Lewi Kristianto  wrote:
> --- Gary Stainburn 
> wrote:
> > On Friday 27 Aug 2004 5:54 am, Lewi Kristianto
> > wrote:
> > > Hi too,
> > >
> > > I'm just curious that is there any open
> > > source/commercial windows software to receive
>
> raw
> > > files from network then print as normal, so
>
> there
> > is
> > > no
> > > different between if the printer is GDI or not
> > > or is cups can running on cygwin?
> >
> > You keep saying 'Raw' files.  What do you mean by
> > raw?
>
> raw? from general driver in redhat-config-network
> > I doubt very much that there's anything out there
>
> to
> > just sit and listen on 
> > the network for print requests.
>
> maybe there is some version cups-lite, that run on
> windows that can receive files from linux, then 
> throw to windows printer driver to process it, 
> because there is limited windows computer, so
> maybe it can be used for printer gateway to printer
> that not yet supported in linux
>
> or maybe is there any suggestion for write this apps
> what documentation that I should read about?
> (specification that cups need)
> > I've just looked at Adobe acrobat and it doesn't
> > look like it wants to accept 
> > command line arguments to print etc., so I don't
> > know hu you'd get it into a 
> > batch routine either.
>
> MERGE
> _______
> > I did this myself in the oposite direction to
>
> allow
> > Windows PCs to create PDF 
> > files.  There should be no difference doing it
>
> this
> > way.  Anyway, doesn't 
> > acroread read postscript files anyway?
>
> is that meant, that linux document need to sent in
> sharing directory in windows "samba"?
> cut
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