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Re: Cups and Ghostscript
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:11:57PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> Also, CUPS now pretty much requires cups-filters. Which in turn depends
> on both ghostscript and poppler. That is rather a waste, two big
> dependencies for the same thing. And I was under the impression that
> poppler was used as a replacement for ghostscript anyway.
Not really. Poppler is generally used for processing PDFs where
Ghostscript is primarily used for rendering Postscript (and sometimes
PDF) to raster formats.
Joerg
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