At 15:02 15.05.1998 -0700, Gavin wrote:
>Can someone think of an example where ghostscript on the 3000 would be
>useful?  Seems to me that you'd have to be generating Postscript on the
>3000 but not have a Postscript printer.  Most of the sources of Postscript
>are going to end up on PCs rather than the 3000, and ghostscript is
>a pretty CPU-intensive rasterizing process that I'm not sure you'd want
>to be doing on the 3000.

Hmmm. Good point. One idea that initially came to my mind was to use
ghostscript as a preprocessing stage for Samba print services. It would
allow MPE spooled PCL printers to "masquerade" as PostScript printers
for PC clients ("print command = ghostscript | rawlp" in smb.conf) BUT
considering the resource consumption it's probably better to have the
PC user perform the PostScript-to-PCL conversion locally.

Thanks for the enlightenment, Gavin.

Lars.