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

[Thomas Dodd]

Aleksander Adamowski wrote:
> Yet still XPrint requires some information about printers (resolution 
> among others) for some reasons.

That's for converting X11 to the page. X is device independent and 
printing isn't.

> 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.

When Xprint started PPD wasn't so big. And the configuration makes 
sense, and the syntax is standard Xdefaults style.

Support for PPDs would be a nice addition though.

-Thomas