Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and OPI
From: Wagner One (wagner@enteract.com)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 18:40:53 EST
I haven't heard of any project like this (other than the commercial
ones), but would be interested to hear of any (or any interest for that
matter).
Mike
On 1/13/99 7:36 PM, Lee Blevins wrote:
>Is there any interest in seeing netatalk perfom OPI?
>
>OPI (open pre-press interface) is a way of printing without the hi res
>images and having a server insert them. The main benifit of this to free
>the workstation from long printing tasks.
>
>I realise it's not an issue for everyone. In our industry (pre-press)
>it's a major consideration since images reach very large (60+ megs)
>sizes.
>
>Perhaps there should be another application that performs this.
>Is it possible to make netatalk just recieve the postscript file from a
>workstation and deposit it in a directory?
>
>To perform OPI on separated postscript files would be quite a task. It
>would be considerably easier to do it to a composite postscript file and
>this would cover a very wide range of printing conditions.
>
>Has this ever been tried? Could anyone be tempted to try it?
>
-- Mike Wagner - A bad Dead show is better than a good day at work... wagner@enteract.com, wagner@well.com, wagner@teamschoeps.org
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