[brailleblaster] Re: Embosser Drivers

  • From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:56:19 +0000

The SWT printing stuff uses cups on Unix and I guess also on Mac.

Michael Whapples
On 30/11/10 22:49, John J. Boyer wrote:

I don't think CUPS is cross-platform. For our purposes it would be
better to use the SWT print package. If the CUPS drivers are open source
we could look at them and adapt them.

John

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:36:27PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:

Hi John,

Would it not be a good idea to incorporate existing CUPS drives into the mix? 
There is already drivers for some embossers available for use with CUPS if I 
remember correctly.

Regards,
Alex,


On 2010-11-30, at 2:16 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:


The first driver to be developed wil of course be the generic driver,
unless we can pick up some drivers from vendors. All the dirvers will be
in the package embosserdrivers. When something is to be embossed, a
method in the DriverManager will be called with a String containing the
name of the embosser and either a file or a byte stream. The latter will
already have been translated and formatted. The DriverManager will call
the driver for the appropriate embosser. Each driver will have a class
of its own.

John

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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
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