[brailleblaster] Re: Embosser Drivers
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:53:51 -0600
what about windows?
--le
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From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:56 PM
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Embosser Drivers
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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>>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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>>>
>>>
>> Alex Jurgensen,
>> VoiceOver Trainer,
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>>
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