[Desktop_architects] Presentation slides - with attached templates

[Michael Sweet]

Egbert Eich wrote:
> ...
> Little off topic (we have gotten off topic a while ago ;-)) 
> On the ride from OSDL back to the hotel Till and I briefly discussed 
> that it would be good if it was possible to pass the ghostscript 
> command line options to ghostscript in the postscript file instead 
> of adding them on the command line.
 > ...

Most Ghostscript command-line options map to setpagedevice and
similar commands, so this should be a no-brainer.  In particular,
JobPatchFiles can be used to pass in basic initialization code
prior to any other commands...

> On the other hand it also would be nice if cups based GUI printer dialogs
> would offer a 'generic postscript printer' so that one could generate 
> plain postscript for printing to a file.

I'm pretty sure that gnomeprint and kdeprint are capable of this
already, however "plain" or "device-independent" PostScript isn't 
necessarily as useful as, say, PDF.

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