[Foomatic] ANNOUNCEMENT: foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc3 released!

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Sun Jan 25 06:47:12 PST 2004


Oi,

this is foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc3, a prerelease of the upcoming stable 
release 3.0.1.

This is only a correction for a bug in foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc2. 
3.0.1rc2 does not build due to a bug in the "configure" script, so you 
should not use it but use 3.0.1rc3 instead. The current version of 
foomatic-db-engine is still 3.0.1rc2.

Thanks to Satoshi Machino for reporting this.

Give your comments and suggestions for the further development on the
Foomatic Development List/Newsgroup on linuxprinting.org.

See details and how to proceed below.

Happy printing!

     Till


Changes
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Compared to Foomatic 3.0.1rc1

  - Script to update the "gimp-print" driver entry in the database
    using the src/foomatic/foomatic-printermap file of the source
    tarball of GIMP-Print 4.2.x.

  - perltoxml() Perl function in DB.pm to generate XML database entries
    from PPD files (thanks to Tim Waugh from Red Hat).

  - Compatibility fixes for the *BSD operating systems and systems
    without bash (Bourne-again shell).

Compared to foomatic-filters 3.0.1rc2

  - Bug fix in "configure" script which prevented 3.0.1rc2 from building.


Packages
--------

The release consists of two packages:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-3.0.1rc3.tar.gz
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-db-engine-3.0.1rc2.tar.gz

NOTE: rc2 for foomatic-db-engine, rc3 for foomatic-filters

It is recommended to also update foomatic-db and foomatic-db-hpijs from
the CVS or from http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/foomatic/ (daily
snapshots). As the database is regularly updated for new printers and
drivers, there are no special releases for it, please use the last daily
snapshot for distributions (the date can be considered as version
number). foomatic-db-hpijs releases are coupled with releases of HPIJS
(http://hpinkjet.sf.net/).

The packages should be installed in the following order:

    1. foomatic-filters
    2. foomatic-db
    3. foomatic-db-hpijs
    4. foomatic-db-engine


Please read the USAGE files to know how to install and use these
packages. You do not necessarily need to install foomatic-db-hpijs, you
only need it when you want to use a printer with the HPIJS driver.

Uninstall any old version of Foomatic before you install these packages.

To set up print queues for any supported spooler (CUPS, LPRng, LPD,
GNUlpr, PPR, PDQ, CPS, no spooler) use "foomatic-configure" as described
in the USAGE file of foomatic-db-engine. You can set up printer queues
based on the Foomatic database, with PPD files for PostScript printers,
with CUPS raster drivers, or raw queues. This is possible for all
spoolers. You can also print a wide range of file types with every
spooler (when you use LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr, PDQ, CPS, or no spooler you
need "a2ps" on your machine).

If you want to know how all this works, see the README files of both the
foomatic-db-engine and foomatic-filters packages.


Web site
--------

Alternatively you can download all what you need for setting up a print
queue from the web. Go simply to the usual site:

        http://www.linuxprinting.org/







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