[Foomatic] Looking for developers: processing of Windows EMF files for CUPS, NX, Samba and Freedesktop.org printing

[Till Kamppeter]

That is a great idea. This can not only allow printing on a Windows 
client when using NX, it can also make it possible to print on a 
winprinter which is not supported by free software, when the printer is 
connected to a Windows server or run through a virtual machine running 
Windows (VMware, Win4lin, ...).

The EMF generator could perhaps be implemented as a GhostScript driver 
and appropriate Foomatic data to control it could be created. If you 
decide for going this way, create patches for ESP GhostScript and I 
check them into the CVS of ESP GhostScript.

Will you be on the LinuxTag (http://www.linuxtag.org/)? Then we should 
meet at the OfficeProductivity booth (at the Window front of the 
Gartenhalle) as I am organizing that booth and I am there most of the time.

Or will you have time to come to the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux 
(http://lsm2004.abul.org/). There you could participate in the Printing 
Summit which I am organizing (http://lsm2004.abul.org/rubrique36.html). 
I could try to get your travekl expenses paid by LSM.

    Till


Fabian Franz wrote:
> 
> I was fascinated so much by this sofware, that I did some research. I noticed 
> that it doesnt yet support printing ...
> 
> You are not be interested in the use case I describe next? But you stll find 
> the research useful? Then just skip to "==="
> 
> The Use Case
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