[gs-devel] Status of the rinkj device

[Till Kamppeter]

I remember that Raph showed me proudly on the LinuxWorld SF 2005 how 
nice image quality rinkj gives on an Epson inkjet. He told that it is 
better than Gutenprint and he promised to make the driver available one 
time. After the LinuxWorld it got really forgotten.

I do not really know whether with the time Gutenprint reached the same 
quality. At least Gutenprint is actively maintained and uses 
standardized driver modularization methods, both CUPS Raster and IJS.

Raph, I do not know whether you still work on rinkj in your spare time, 
but you probably have the latest working version of the code around. It 
would be great if you could send us simply a tarball and some 
documentation, so that we can replace the broken code in Ghostscript. 
Otherwise we will simply remove it, Thank you very much in advance.

    Till


Ralph Giles wrote:
> Ray,
> 
> I'm curious about the status of the rinkj device. As far as I can tell, 
> the version of the gdevrinkj.c we have in svn has never compiled, since 
> Raph's first commit in r5054. Is there a working version floating around 
> somewhere?
> 
> I patched it to compile and added it to the default build in r8620, but 
> I didn't try using it. If we're not going to support this code we should 
> just remove it.
> 
>  -r
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