[Xprint] GISWxprint-sparc-2004-07-07-release_009_001 Prints too large

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

>But I've always wondered why this problem has to occur at
>all. xprint generates PostScript, doesn't it? PostScript is a
>universal language which is understood by all printers on Linux
>systems, either natively or through ghostscript. And according to
>what little I know about PostScript, there are commands like
>moveto, scalefont, etc., which refer to sizes and distances in
>absolute measures (like centimeters or typographical points) and
>not to printer-specific "pixels" at all. Why can't xprint use
>these exclusively? If it did, characters printed at 12 point size
>would be 12 points, whatever printer happened to be used.
>  
>

Yet still XPrint requires some information about printers (resolution 
among others) for some reasons.

And I see it strange that XPrint is so much about generating standard 
Postscript and sending it to a printer, but it understands only a 
non-standard printer model description format, while a standard, 
Postscript-based (PPD) format is available and widely used.
Many printer vendors publish PPDs for their devices.

And the currently most popular printing system (CUPS) makes that PPD 
printer model data easily available.

So lack of PPD support in XPrint looks strange, you'd think that XPrint 
would be one of the first candidates to support that standard.

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