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Heh! you remind me of my time as a newly minted mechanical engineer undergrad. Linux was a new thing in India at that time. It was a lot fun to go through the
by srean 4y ago
Heh! you remind me of my time as a newly minted mechanical engineer undergrad.
Linux was a new thing in India at that time. It was a lot fun to go through the code, especially for someone new to C, to understand the printing pipeline end to end. For me the driving motivation was to enable that cool 'draft mode' where only the outline of the font used to be inked leaving the insides free of toner.
- bombcar 4y agoBasically why I was poking around, printing a TXT file would use the default font but there was the capability of using PCL to switch fonts, and the printer came with some really nice ones built in. Later we got a copy of PCTeX for DOS that completely changed everything.
- srean 4y agoThis is so strange ! In a pleasant way of course. I also wanted to change the font for txt files as well. I didn't have a computer at home and would print the txt version of Linux HOWTOs 2-up to save paper, but also wanted to save toner. I had very little CS training at that time, except for some rudimentary fortran. Learning Linux on my own was to become my CS university. I still have fond memories of poring over the ghostscript codebase.