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# $Id: ANNOUNCE,v 1.6 1998/06/04 21:33:04 andreas Exp $
Upgrade in 4.9.7
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Do 4 Jun 1998 23:17:20 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
Added support for new HP DeskJet Driver in FreeBSD port of ghostscript 5.10
As a result apsfilters SETUP needs to know about the new printer drivers
See:
http://bonk.ethz.ch/hp850/hp850.html
http://bonk.ethz.ch/hp850/hp850-readme.1.3.html
If you want that for Linux as well, you have to patch the ghostscript
sources and to rebuild ghostscript 5.10. The URL's above contain
some (not complete) instructions how to do that.
For more hints you can browse through my diffs in the FreeBSD
ports collection.
Bugfixes in 4.9.6
=================
Fr 29 Mai 1998 00:04:35 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
* From: Neil Hart <nhart@magma.ca>
get rid of SPOOLDIR /usr/spool for Linux installations ...
nearly all OS now use /var/spool ...
* apsfilter 4.9.6 released
Di 26 Mai 1998 21:10:11 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
* From: Neil Hart <nhart@magma.ca>
1. the script setup/compile refers to the directory a2ps-4.2-akl-new,
but the source is actually in the directory a2ps-4.2-akl
2. the script setup/compile doesn't invoke Makefile.linux, but
instead simply defaults to use the (non-functional) Makefile
in that directory
3. the install_it script in the rewind-stdin directory has the
line ''cp rewindstdin $BINDIR" commented out, so it never
actually installs the program
New Goodies in 4.9.5
====================
o Support direct printing of HTML documents
using html2ps
New Goodies in 4.9.4
====================
o Absolutely new SETUP:
- view your gs binaries compiled in drivers (gs -h)
- browse through the devices.txt file
- menue oriented
- possibility to change print parameters and
PRINT a TEST page as long as you like
- saves the current SETUP environment settings in ./SETUP.cfg
even if you have to terminate with ^C your settings are not lost !
- SETUP reads old envireoment on starup if SETUP.cfg file is present
- SETUP knows about all gs 5.10 drivers + 3rd party hp850 driver
- enhanced serial printer setup in preparation
- saves some interesting printer settings from SETUP
at the end of /etc/apsfilterrc, so printer is ready for use,
as tested !
o Bugfixes from SuSE developement team and other people.
o Supports FreeBSD ports collection
o Patches from FreeBSD ports collection included
o ghostscript 5.10 support
o hp850 driver support
o Still no support for LPRng !!!!
Please use a standard (Berkeley) lpd package !!!!
Thomas Bueschgens
=================
Thomas Bueschgens isn't involved in the apsfilter developement
as co-author anymore. Don't try to send him mail.
Thomas, thanks for the good work in the past !
New Goodies in 4.9.3
====================
apsfilter 4.9.3 is apsfilter 4.9.1 for FreeBSD 2.1 in it's own
package format. This version is part of the FreeBSD installation
CD-Rom offered by Walnut Creeck.
Support for FreeBSD ports collection
Apsfilter is now more secure. You have to set INSECURE in /etc/apsfilterrc
as root first otherwise its not possible for users to use the
custom files $HOME/.apsfilterrc.
There is a new switch DVIPS_RESOL_DorP. Some dvips versions use the P
and some the D Option to change the printer resolution on the command line.
So if you have trouble printing TeX dvi files using dvips, check this one
first, please ! It defaults now to -D so it runs like a charm with
Thomas Essers teTeX-0.3 package ;-)
Nice Contribution:
okidisplay is for HPLJ compatible OKI 400ex. They have a programmable
display. Martin Kraemer (Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de) has made a C Program,
that hacks the current print job into the display of the printer in the
following form: <job>:<user>@<host>
So you can see, what print job currently is active ;-)
WHAT IS APSFILTER
=================
Do you have the German Unix Magazine UnixOpen February 1995 handy ?
Yes ?! Then read the article about apsfilter "Jetzt wird Druck gemacht".
APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD-like
printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work
when printing different file types wether compressed or not !!!
Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported
by the free postscript emulator - under the terms of the GPL -
"ghostscript" (gs), to print postscript files automatically !
With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 its now possible to print
*compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!!
The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system.
o Supported packers:
GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT
o Supported file types:
Postscript
TeX DVI
Ascii
Data (PCL,...)
GIFF
TIFF
Sun Rasterfiles
FIG
PNM (pbmplus)
HTML
Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly
=========================================================
- FreeBSD 1.X
- FreeBSD 2.X
- FreeBSD 3.X
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4) (when using
another file command that can read from a pipe)
- Many Linux Distributions
But please use the supported lpd print daemon, not LPRng ;-)
- and surely all commercial Unix Systems,
that run a BSD 4.X operating system
==========================================================
How to get apsfilter and related software
==========================================================
apsfilter:
http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/apsfilter-4.9.5.tar.gz
To use all of apsfilters features or capabilities some
additional (on your system possibly non-standard) utilities
need to be installed.
ghostscript510 - ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/gs510/
ghostscript-5.10.tar.gz
ghostscript-5.10gnu.tar.gz
ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10.tar.gz
ghostscript-fonts-other-5.10.tar.gz
jpeg - ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b
png - ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/libpng-1.0.1.tgz
zlib - http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/zlib/
gs hp850 driver - ftp://bonk.ethz.ch/gs-driver-distrib/hp850.zip
unzip - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/src/unzip532.tar.gz
netpbm - ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz
transfig - ftp://crl.dec.com/pub/X11/contrib/applications/
drawing_tools/transfig/transfig.3.2.tar.gz
xpm - ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/xpm/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
teTeX - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/
pub/tex/ctan/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/
teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz
teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz
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