Request to include in Main: splix

[Jan Claeys]

Op woensdag 24-01-2007 om 15:46 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Till
Kamppeter:
> 
> 1. On the monochrome printers like yours, the "gdi" driver which is 
> built into GhostScript works fine with simple documents: text, some 
> graphics, ... On more complicated documents it can run into problems 
> easily. SpliX prints all types of documents correctly and also
> supports more printer features. 

I have a Samsung ML-1610 and I can affirm that the 'gdi' driver does
often "crashes" the printer (although this is dependent on the program
used: OOo works fine mostly, while Firefox gives troubles almost all the
time).

The closed source driver from Samsung doesn't have this problem, but the
included installation program is quite dangerous so I had to install it
by copying files around on several computers...

It seems like this 'splix' driver also doesn't have this problem (just
tested this on a Feisty install), so it's inclusion in 'main' would be
nice.  :-)

BTW: the way this driver is listed in in the (GNOME?) cups config isn't
very useful: "1.0"...


-- 
Jan Claeys