Thanks to
Don Molaro don@sceptre.cuc.ab.ca
S.T.Chang SangThong@ccm.sns.com.sg
Endre Polgar (Mr.)epolgar@icon.hu
for their answers!
In several answers it was suggested to use ghostscript. A have a 2.6.1pl4
version of ghostcript. It really knows a wide variety of printers. It
supports the folllowing Canons: BJ10e BJ200 LBP-8II, but I'm afraid that
none of that drivers can produce a nice color printing on a BJC 800.
I'll try to find a newer version of GS.
Another suggestion was NeWSprint which is a commecional product. We
have an older version (2.0) and that can handle a lot of printers and
plotters, but Canon is not among them.
Some other filters an image processing products were mentioned. I created a brief listing of them below.
Thanks again!
Andras
Image processing and conversion tools:
hp2xx from ftp.uu.net:/packages/gnu/
I have a version of 3.1.4 . It's manpage says:
Currently supported:
mode = "mf" (Metafont), "em" (emTeX \special{} commands), "epic"
(line drawing using TeX macros within epic.sty), "eps" (PostScript),
"pcl" (HP-PCL Level 3 format (suitable for printing on a HP Laserjet II,
DeskJet, or compatible printer), "img" (GEMs IMG format), "pbm" (Portable
Bit Map), or "pcx" (PC-Paintbrush format, also accepted by
MS-Paintbrush / Windows 3.0 and many other PC based pixel renderers)
hpgl2ps from brolga.cc.uq.oz.au:/postscript/hpgl2ps
sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/X11/contrib/pbmplus10dec91.tar.Z.
IM Raster Toolkit, by Alan Paeth (awpaeth@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca).
Utah RLE Toolkit. cs.utah.edu:pub/toolkit-2.0.tar.Z
ucsd.edu:graphics/utah-raster-toolkit.tar.Z.
Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation, by Michael Mauldin <mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu>.
nl.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/mlm/ftp/fbm.tar.Z,
uunet.uu.net:pub/fbm.tar.Z
ucsd.edu:graphics/fbm.tar.Z.
Img Software Set, by Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/img_1.3.tar.Z, and
venera.isi.edu:pub/img_1.3.tar.Z
Xim, by Philip R. Thompson.
available via ftp from video.mit.edu. It uses
xloadimage, by Jim Frost <madd@std.com>.
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xloadimage*, and in your nearest comp.sources.x
archive.
TIFF Software, by Sam Leffler <sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>.
ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/tiff/*.tar.Z
uunet.uu.net:graphics/tiff.tar.Z
ALV, a Sun-specific image toolkit.
Version 2.0.6 posted to comp.sources.sun on 11dec89.
Also available via email to alv-users-request@cs.bris.ac.uk.
popi, an image manipulation language. Version 2.1 posted to
comp.sources.misc on 12dec89.
ImageMagick,
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z
Khoros
FTP as pprg.unm.edu:pub/khoros/*.
LaboImage, a SunView-based image processing and analysis package.
FTP as ads.com:pub/VISION-LIST-ARCHIVE/SHAREWARE/LaboImage_3.1.tar.Z
The San Diego Supercomputer Center Image Tools
FTP in sdsc.edu:sdscpub.
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