- default in BATCH mode is now, NOT to have X11 based utilities in
port dependencies, I think this makes apsfilter better in
- running on small printservers that don't have X11 installed
- making apsfilter package more "sexy" for being placed onto the 1st
FreeBSD installation CD-ROM, since now it consumes less space !!!
- make apsfilter use the same make environment variable NO_X like
in ghostscript6 port
- this enables you to build and run apsfilter even on a small printserver,
that doesn't have X installed
- NO_X is even usefull when having APSFILTER_ALL set, since then it installs
all available/supported filter utilities, that don't require X11
- the last one needs some more fine tuning, currently I left it empty,
have to think about, whats a possible replacement that don't need X11...
- add patchsite and patchfile
- fix1: correct apsfilter version string that is echo'd in logfile
when script debugging is turned on
- fix2: samba remote printing bug fixed. The exported variable
containing the windows password was spelled incorrectly.
samba 2.0.7 uses PASSWD not PASSWORD.
Hint: People who don't want to reinstall apsfilter can fix that easily
by substituting PASSWORD with PASSWD
- for runtime
in $PREFIX/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter
- for SETUP (test printing functionality)
in $PREFIX/share/apsfilter/SETUP
therefore they were also missing in package (-> PORTREVISION bump)
- portlint complained about descr. line being too long, trimmed it down
to below 70 chars.
PR: 23973
Submitted by: David W. Chapman Jr. <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
hint: no need to update folks, sorry, make-release still doesn't work right
and updates still apsfilter-stable if I want to roll a new -current snapshot.
I will fix it in the future but currently I don't have time.
last recent changes:
Mo 14 Aug 2000 07:05:28 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* SETUP: use "-" instead of "-_", as reported from
Hal Bower. To make print_testpage work on every gs version.
For printing the test page this is enough.
* info file fix: use new domain "apsfilter.org"
* refresh info concerning mailing-lists, the following are
available now:
- apsfilter-announce Announcements
- apsfilter-chat talk/chat around apsfilter and printing
- apsfilter-current developer version of apsfilter
- apsfilter-cvs Commit Messages of Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-devel Closed List for Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-hackers Technical Discussion, code submissions
- apsfilter-help User Support / Help Forum
- apsfilter-printing Printing under Unix environment
- apsfilter-stable apsfilter stable release (5.x)
Add patch 5.4.2 to RELENG_5
Things that makes me wonder:
a) patch is unable to remove make-release, that vanished in RELENG_5
so I had to remove the diff for that. Don't know if our patch is
so dumb, or if cvs diff doesn't generate the right things.
The complete diff concerning this is rejected.
b) the CONFIGURE TARGET OF OUR PORTS COLLECTION STILL doesn't work.
Could someone please tell me, if I missed something ???
Suddenly the apsfilter configure script isn't executed anymore
and so the apsfilter port doesn't create Makefile.inc to resolve
the port dependencies, when being called "interactively"...
completely to www.apsfilter.org
Many thanks to the FreeBSD developer team, Jordan, WC,
who made distribution of apsfilter possible for years.
Changes:
- checksums changed
- Redesign concerning patches to save CVS repository space
remove patches in patches directory completely !
- use PATCHFILES in Makefile instead, which are actually
smaller changes !
o Additional "post-5.4.2 Release" features:
- AppleTalk Remote printer support (via netatalk's pap(1) utility).
Experimental, please test !
- new revised uniprint profiles from Harold Bower <HalBower@worldnet.att.net>
and additionally some new for:
- Epson Stylus 800 (Monochrome) and
- Epson LQ-570/870/1070/1170 24-pin Dot-Matrix
- prevent printing of an empty page when using raw printer, default is off now.
- bugfix: older gs versions (< v6.x) doesn't support "-_", which allows more efficient read operation. The bug prevented apsfilter to work with the
older gs versions.
- bugfix: hpdj (3rd party gs driver) doesn't like the -sBitsPerPixel option. So stripp it off, if using hpdj driver.
- FAQ file cleanups
- better hpdj driver defaults for HP DJ 970 printers
- some cleanups in code when printing PDF files
- and other things ....
if you want apsfilters so called "CLASS support" when suppressing the
printing of banner page.
CLASS support enables you to enter gs driver specific commands
on the command line via lpr's -C option, i.e.:
lpr -C high:presentation file.ps
Normally this only works when you configure lpd to print the banner page.
Only then additional lines are inserted in the print jobs control file.
apsfilters standard printcap installation always uses :sh:,
therefore you need the patch for lpr.c, to write those "CLASS informations"
into the print jobs control file, no matter if :sh: is configured in
printcap or not.
- contains security fixes
- make-release: web page design
- remove note about manually installing manpages on Linux Systems
this is done by SETUP
- new TODO item
- SETUP: order of manpage install paths (Matej Vela)
remote printing with samba was broken because of syntax error in shell.
only occurred when a SMB_PASSWD has been set.
Thanks to Olivier !
Submitted by: Olivier PAGE <olivier@esm2.imt-mrs.fr>
syntax error in SETUP
which is detected by bash2 but not by our shell
So all Linux user trapped over this
result is, that you can't select a printer and loop in printer selection
forever...
+ doesn't work:
+ PRINTER=`awk -F "|" \
^----- missing "
+ "{ if (FNR == $answer ) print \\$2 }" \
+ < $PRINTER_LIST"`
^^----- wrong order
+ works:
+ PRINTER="`awk -F "|" \
^----- o.k.
+ "{ if (FNR == $answer ) print \\$2 }" \
+ < $PRINTER_LIST`"
^^----- o.k.
Is it a bug in our shell ???
Fixes BUG in apsfilter 5.3.0
SETUP: you entered a "printer selection loop" when selecting uniprint
printer
Includes the previous patch for CLASS support and such ...
New features in 5.3.0
=====================
- Major enhancements in SETUP, therefore version bump
- checks your version of ghostscript
- is aware of gs version 5.50 and 6.01 printer drivers
- new driver selection mechanism
- fetches list of available printer driver from file
- you can browse/search this list using more
- you select printer driver by number
- sanity check, if the printer driver is present in your gs binary
- at the end of your selection you get a list of printers
as confirmation, that are supported by your driver selection
- you can repeat this step as often as you like until you
choose a valid printer driver
- After printer driver selection you can as usual print test pages
if you like or repeat the step of selection another driver in this
more user friendly manner.
- upp profile contribution for
Epson LQ-570/870/1070/1170 ESC/P2 24-pin Dot Matrix printer
- 3rd party additional driver for
HP 812C, 815C, 832C, 880C, 882C, 895C, 932C, 970C
http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html
- Generic Postscript printer Support
- added more resolutions in SETUP script and apsfilter script
- bugfix: some resolutions were missing in apsfilter script
- Adding driver support information is now more easy, since you only
have to add it to a file setup/printer-<gs-version>
- internal: download page: enhanced make-release script
produces now diffs from every version to latest version
- latest apsfilter patches can be found on download page
- info: new URL -> http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas
- new URL -> http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas
- make-release: generate more diffs (every release to latest) and
patch from latest to head branch
- Added files with an up to date printer list for gs 5.50 and 6.01
SETUP will be modified later...
- devices-5.50 - list of driver options
- devices-6.01 - list of driver options
- printer-5.50 - list of supported printers
- printer-6.01 - list of supported printers
New apsfilter features:
* Security: config files are read using awk, not sourced during runtime
* Complete Windows Remote Printer Support (as Guest user or using real login)
* Complete Unix remote printer support
* Support for different print resolutions (by starting SETUP repeatedly)
and choosing different print resolutions
* A2PS options revamped
* lots of more things... See my homepage, ANNOUNCE file ...
* print margin problem of a2ps fixed
FAQ section gives you a real life example, of how to configure
page margins in /usr/local/etc/a2ps.cfg for an EPSON STYLUS PRO.
With this example you can fine tune the margins for your printer in
about 10-15 minutes from scratch...
- SETUP: added support for configuring remote printer
Beware: you still have to make sure, that your line printer scheduler supports
input filter processing with remote printers as it is the case for FreeBSD 3.x
and later with a "fixed" lpd, as well as for Unix systems with LPRng installed
as lineprinter scheduler, which is the case for some (not all !!!) Linux
Systems.
- Add support for printing with SAMBA (SAMBA_PRINTER)
- Bugfix. Some printer dependend settings will be overwritten, when installing
a 2nd printer, which might cause printing with the 1st printer to fail,
especially if the first printer is color and 2nd B&W or vice versa.
Revamped SETUP and bin/apsfilter to get around this.
- Added SETUP menue entries for the uniprint driver
contributed by Francois D. Menard <fmenard@g6-114b.residence.usherb.ca>
printer: Epson Stylus Color 740
mode1: stc740ih.upp : Epson Stylus Color 740, 1440x720DpI, Inkjet Paper
mode2: stc740p.upp : Epson Stylus Color 740, 720x720DpI, Plain Paper
mode3: stc740pl.upp : Epson Stylus Color 740, 360x360DpI, Plain Paper
- New FAQ entries concerning print margins when printing ASCII text with a2ps
- updated howto and troubleshooting document
HOWTO-BUGREPORTS moved to toplevel, so that its easier to find.
