[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 15:38:00 UTC 2019


And another update below.

    Till

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Google Summer of Code 2019
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We got five student proposals for OpenPrinting. The students have all 
submitted their applications to Google now, so that we only need to hope 
for enough slots.

The projects are:

Generic Framework to turn legacy drivers consisting of CUPS filters and 
PPDs into Printer Applications  by  Dheeraj Yadav

Improve the pdftoraster filter to not need copying Poppler source code 
or using unstable APIs  by  Tanmay Anand

IPP: ipptool test suite updates for IPP errata updates  by  Sharad Shukla

IPP: ipptool test suite for IPP System Service  by  Aakash Sunil Lahoti

Turn the scp-dbus-service of system-config-printer into C  by  Sobhan Mondal

On 05/04/2019 17:10, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here is the newest development of the last month.
> 
>     Till
> 
> ----------
> 
> 
> Google Summer of Code 2019
> --------------------------
> 
> We are currently in the period of the students submitting their 
> proposals to Google. Aveek, me, and other mentors are reviewing the 
> proposals and working with the students to make them as good as 
> possible, so that we get a good count of slots.
> 
> 
> Avahi
> -----
> 
> I talked with my managers at Canonical and they talked with Trent's 
> manager, succeeding that Trent's manager allows him some work time to 
> put into the merge of the localhost support.
> 
> This resulted in Trent actually starting to work on it.
> 
> Trent asked my for some materials and tips for him testing CUPS' 
> behavior without needing an appropriate printer.
> 
> Finally, he posted some comments on
> 
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125
> 
> Look at the comments starting from here:
> 
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125#issuecomment-477502912
> 
> The patch consists of the localhost support itself, (3 lines which I 
> have created something like 2 years ago) and of the renaming of the 
> hostname to "localhost" in the DNS-SD records originating from the "lo" 
> interface (1 line, contributed by Rithvik, one of our former GSoC 
> students).
> 
> Trent considers the second part not correct, but instead, CUPS needs to 
> work different when evaluating incoming DNS-SD messages from Avahi, 
> especially considering from which interface and address family each 
> message comes (and so treat "lo" and also IPv4/IPv6 correctly).
> 
> I have also asked Trent whether cups-browsed is doing this correctly (at 
> least cups-browsed also works without the second part of the patch).
> 
> It is possible that the final settlement will get fought out between 
> Trent and Mike Sweet after Mike comes back from his vacation on April 12.
> 
> Note that Trent has sometimes very urgent work items in his actual job, 
> so progress comes in irregular portions.
> 
> 
> OpenPrinting web site
> ---------------------
> 
> We have moved the Foomatic repositories from BZR to GIT now and so they 
> are in the OpenPrinting GitHub now:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting
> 
> With this all active OpenPrinting projects are hosted in our GitHub.
> 
> Especially thanks to Dheeraj Yadav (GSoC 2019 candidate student) for 
> adding scripts for syncing the database with the GIT repos to the 
> Foomatic web app. See:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io/issues/54
> 
> This means that manufacturer contributions of PPD files and printer 
> entries have to get committed to the GIT repos. I have already informed 
> the Ricoh guys.
> 
> 
> CUPS
> ----
> 
> No new releases.
> 
> Mike Sweet is on vacation until April 12.
> 
> 
> cups-filters
> ------------
> 
> Note that due to the fact that we have given GitHub issues of 
> cups-filters to students as assignments for the GSoC 2019 student 
> selection process I have checked through the issues and (together with 
> issues which I have closed and which I have fixed by myself) reduced the 
> number of issues from 26 to 18.
> 
> I will release 1.22.4 still for Ubuntu 19.04.
> 
> Currently released is 1.22.3.
> 
> Bug fix release, to fix crashes and hangs on broken GIF files and also 
> to improve the documentation of cups-browsed.
> 
> 1.22.2:
> 
> Bug fix release, mainly to a crash bug when using the "Cluster" 
> directive in the cups-browsed configuration and to make the printing of 
> jobs in printer clusters more reliable. Also improvements on the image 
> filters and an update of the man page for the "driverless" utility.
> 
> CHANGES IN V1.22.4
> 
>      - cups-browsed: Fix broken trailing space removal on
>        "NickName" (Pull request #103).
>      - pdftops: Emit PostScript Level 2 instead of Level 3 for
>        Brother PostScript printers as at least some of them
>        report to support level 3 but ontly work with Level 2
>        (Ubuntu bug #1306849, comment #42).
>      - bannertopdf: When multiplying the page for N-up or Duplex
>        printing one page too much was generated (Issue #102).
> 
> CHANGES IN V1.22.3
> 
>      - libcupsfilters: Added error checks for processing GIF, to
>        avoid crashes or hangs on broken GIF files (Issues #81, #82,
>        Pull request #100).
>      - cups-browsed: Added hint to the man page and configuration
>        file that with "DebugLogging stderr" the logging output goes
>        to journal or syslog if cups-browsed is running as system
>        service (Issue #28).
> 
> CHANGES IN V1.22.2
> 
>      - cups-browsed: Let distribution of jobs sent to queues with
>        "implicitclass" backend (usually clusters) be done by a
>        "job-state" CUPS notification and not by
>        "printer-state-changed" any more. The "job-state"
>        notification already contains the job ID. Before we had to
>        poll the job ID from CUPS via IPP which was sometimes
>        unreliable (Issue #97).
>      - imagetopdf, imagetoraster, pdftopdf, libcupsfilters: Added
>        new page scaling options: "fill" scales the input page
>        (typically a photo) so that the output page (typically with
>        different aspect ratio) gets completely filled, aloowing for
>        some content of the input page getting lost. "crop-to-fit"
>        allows for easy printing of documents on slightly different
>        output page sizes (A4 <-> Letter) maintaining the size and
>        centering and cropping into the destination page. Thanks to
>        Dheeraj Yadav (dhirajyadav135 at gmail dot com) for the
>        patch (Pull request #92).
>      - cups-browsed: Do not do IPP request for printer-is-shared
>            option for remote cups queues with CUPS 2.2.x and newer
>            (Pull request #91).
>      - cups-browsed: Fix crash bug when reading "Cluster"
>        directive from configuration file (Issue #94).
>      - driverless: Updated man page as now also Mopria and
>        Wi-Fi Direct printers are supported. Mentioned also
>        ippusbxd.
> 
> 
> ippusbxd
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> 
> No further news.



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