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apsfilter 5.4.1 releases / developement team formed / mailing-lists ... (Andreas Klemm)
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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: apsfilter 5.4.1 releases / developement team formed / mailing-lists ...
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:27:33 GMT
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Hi !
I'm very pleased to announce this new version of apsfilter.
Many things have improved, see ANNOUNCE file attached.
Other sources of information:
- - Main apsfilter homepage:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andreas
- - Apsfilter Software Center
http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas/apsfilter/download.html
- - CVS Repository:
http://www.cosmo-project.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/apsfilter/ANNOUNCE?rev=1.61
Very good news is, that apsfilter got a developement machine.
The cosmo-project - http://www.cosmo-project.de - was so kind, to sponsor
access to a FreeBSD DEC ALPHA server for apsfilter developement purposes.
Many thanks to Bernd Walter <bernd@cosmo-project.de>, who made this possible
and DPN (Deutsches Provider Network - http://www.dpn.de, now Via Networks).
This made it possible to form an apsfilter developement team. As the first
new member Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>, the apsfilter port maintainer of
the Linux Debian project, joined the team. Hopefully other people will follow
to help me to further enhance apsfilter with respect to
- Installation
- Support of many different flavours of Unix
- Printer Management
- Homepage Design
- Documentation
- Features
- Support Resources (GNATS bug database, mailing-list archive, ...)
Another positive side effect of this developement machine is, that several
new internet services can be offered for apsfilter users and developers:
- 5 mailing lists for different purposes (see below).
- CVS repository browser (cvsweb, enhanced Zeller version)
- Anonymous CVS server, which enables you to checkout apsfilter
"work in progress" between releases
- remote CVS over ssh for developers
If you are a company and like apsfilter, see the file DONATIONS
http://www.cosmo-project.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/apsfilter/DONATIONS?rev=1.1
how you can support the apsfilter team with hardware or money donations,
which are very welcome (but of course not necessary).
Just for your info: in May I will be in holidays, so please don't expect
many changes. Matej Vela will be able to do bug fixes and perhaps more.
Announcement over apsfilter-announce. Availability via the CVS server
or the mailing-lists. In June I will be very busy at work, but then it
will be possible to add people to the team, work on things like the
TODO list, form project goals and proceed as usual ;-)
Last but not least a big thanks to the people, who did really cool
contributions to apsfilter, from which I'm sure all users will benefit
and be really excited.
Best regards
Andreas
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New in Apsfilter 5.4.1
======================
Contents of this ANNOUNCE file:
1. DESIGN CHANGES
2. NEW FEATURES
3. SECURITY
4. DOCUMENTATION
5. CONTRIBUTIONS
6. BUG FIXES
7. CODE IMPROVEMENTS
8. MISCELLANEOUS
9. EVENTS
10. INTERNET RESOURCES
11. UPGRADE SUGGESTIONS
1. DESIGN CHANGES
- only two instead of three printcap entries per installed printer
(auto+raw, ascii has gone)
force ASCII printing by lpr -C ascii (so called "CLASS" support)
- format of printer entries in /etc/printcap changed
to make printer management tools possible
- apsfilter configuration file (apsfilterrc) on a "per printer" basis
- name and location of apsfilter config file changed
a) system config file
/var/spool/lpd/<printer-spool>/apsfilterrc
b) user overwritable values
$HOME/.apsfilter/apsfilterrc.apsN
- SETUP accepts only ghostscript 5.50 and 6.01
- SETUP reads list of supported printers from a file
called printer-<gs_version>
- apsfilter is secure by
- reading config variables from apsfilterrc file using awk
- forbidding user customizeable apsfilterrc files in $HOME
- using mktemp for creating tmp files
- apsfilter remembers last printer configuration, so it's easier
to add a similar printer with other resolution (which is needed
to configure different resolutions when using the uniprint driver)
2. NEW FEATURES
- complete ghostscript 6.01 printer support
- support for the following 3rd party ghostscript drivers:
- http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html
- HPDJ 2.6, additional driver for HP PCL3 Printers
by Martin Lottermoser
ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/ghostscript/pcl3/pcl3.html
- complete uniprint printer driver support
- additional contributed uniprint driver profiles for:
Epson Stylus Color 740
Epson LQ-1170
- CLASS support, change one ore more of your ghostscript printer
drivers print characteristics (print resolution, color depth,
special driver features like weavin, paper type, print quality,
compression) or apsfilters behaviour (force ascii printing)
on the command line by using lpr's -C (CLASS) option.
Further enhancements are planned using this mechanism.
Please note:
feature list is driver dependend, see bin/apsfilter for reference !
i.e.: lpr -C high:855C:CMYK:presentation:photo:32bpp file.hires.pdf
- CLASS support for the following gs printer driver, other will
follow on demand:
- stcolor
- cdj670|cdj850|cdj890|cdj1600
- cdj880
- cdj500|pjtest|declj250
- cdj550
- pjxl300|pjxltest
- bjc600|bjc800
- hpdj
- complete support for Unix remote printer (SETUP and apsfilter)
even if you have an old lineprinter scheduler, which doesn't
support lineprinter input filters on remote printers
- complete support for Windows95/98/NT/2000 remote printer via samba
- samba configuration file for windows remote printers in every
printers spool directory: smbclient.conf
- enhanced SETUP, which recognizes gs version 5.50 and 6.01
and offers a browseable list of supported printer
- the printerlist for 5.50 and 6.01 shows the supported printer,
incl. 3rd party drivers, of the FreeBSD gs 5.50 and 6.01 ports.
- SETUP: detects gs version and displays "gs version dependend"
supported printer list as well as original gs driver docu
this helps you to find the bst driver for your printer.
3. SECURITY
- apsfilter has been made more secure by reading environment
variables using awk instead of sourcing the config file with "."
which executes the file as shell script under lpd permissions !
- still some security problems remain, therefore apsfilter
forbids use of user customizeable apsfilterrc files in their
HOME directory.
The administrator has to set INSECURE in apsfilterrc to enable
that feature in every printers spool directory.
- apsfilter, SETUP and scripts use mktemp for creating tmp files
4. DOCUMENTATION
- wrote manpages for:
apsfilter(1)
apsfilterrc(5)
filtersetup(8)
- tried to wipe out outdated docu files
- file CONTRIBUTORS contains people who contributed sources and ideas
5. CONTRIBUTIONS
- Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>
- code improvements
- bugfixes
- support for hpdj
- LPRng fixes (stdin)
- "spalling" ;-)
- Michael Lossin <losse@germanymail.com>
- code improvements
- bugfixes
- use acroread for printing PDF
- export fontpath additionally in GS_LIB
- gs efficiency improvements by reading from "-_" instead of "-"
- printing with uniprint: add -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER
- use of mktemp for tmp files
- Harold Bower <HalBower@worldnet.att.net>
- CLASS support
- TurboLinux docu (README.TurboLinux)
- different print resolutions using uniprint drivers (docu)
- uniprint driver profile finetuning (lqx70cm.upp)
- Bjorn Hansson <Bjorn.Hansson@signal.uu.se>
- code improvements
- bugfixes
- windows printing enhancements
- Fix print to file option
- make test page for samba printer more robust
- Samba printer fixes (ip/workgroup)
- Print redirection missing for non PS print_xxxx() functions.
- Raw printing to a HP printer does not reset printer.
- remote printers support for broken lpd's (lpr.conf)
6. BUG FIXES
- apsfilter:
- set default print resolution to 360dpi for uniprint driver
- missing eval statements in 2 print_ functions
- use mktemp to create tmp files (more general + secure way)
- windows printing enhancements
- Fix print to file option
- Samba printer fixes (ip/workgroup)
- Print redirection missing for non PS print_xxxx() functions.
- Raw printing to a HP printer does not reset printer.
- remote printers support for broken lpd's (lpr.conf)
7. CODE IMPROVEMENTS
- SETUP script:
- STYLE: printcap creation part better organized
- STYLE: print test page function splitted
- more color depth options
- install manual pages on Linux Systems, allow you to
choose paths and compression types.
- comments (# ...) are ignored in printer list (list of
supported printer)
- apsfilter:
- ghostscript reads files more efficient (in blocks)
when using "-_" instead of "-" for stdin
- better support for uniprint printer driver
- use acroread4 or acroread for printing PDF files
because it produces cleaner postscript
- export fontpath additionally in GS_LIB
then additional Fontmap files are also read in
- printing with uniprint driver: add -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER
just for the case this has been forgotten in upp file.
- gs:
- uniprint driver profile finetuning
medium definition driver (lqx70cm.upp) changed to
unidirectional printing to reduce alignment problems.
- mksymlinks:
- name change: mksymlink, does now one printer at a time
- turned off set -x
- make-release:
- use CVSROOT from environment
- mirror apsfilter remote cvs repository first
- use local CVS repo for building releases and creating diffs
8. MISCELLANEOUS
- new files:
ANNOUNCE.previous - old annoucements
CONTRIBUTORS - list of contributors
DONATIONS - how to support apsfilter project
9. EVENTS
- cosmo project sponsored an apsfilter developement machine
DEC ALPHA running FreeBSD
http://www.cosmo-project.de/
- I'm pleased to announce, that Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>
joined the apsfilter developement team
10. INTERNET RESOURCES
- apsfilter mailinglists are available !!!
apsfilter-announce
apsfilter-cvs
apsfilter-devel
apsfilter-hackers
apsfilter-help
to subscribe send mail to majordomo@cosmo-project.de
address-- To: ListName-request@cosmo-project.de
message-- subscribe
OR
address-- To: majordomo@cosmo-project.de
message-- subscribe ListName
- CVS Repository Browser (cvsweb, enhanced zeller version)
Access the apsfilter source repository online to keep
track of changes:
http://www.cosmo-project.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi
- Anonymous CVS Server
Checkout any apsfilter release you want/need even the latest
bits and bytes in developement.
user@home$ setenv CVSROOT \
:pserver:cvs@srv1.cosmo-project.de:/var/apscvs/APSCVS
user@home$ cvs login
(Logging in to cvs@srv1.cosmo-project.de)
CVS password: RETURN
user@home$ cvs checkout -r RELEASE_TAG apsfilter
cvs server: Updating apsfilter
U apsfilter/...
Valid release-tags, i.e.:
HEAD - for the latest changed (head branch)
RELENG_5_4_1_RELEASE - for release 5.4.1
11. UPGRADE SUGGESTIONS
- You'll have to completely re-install all your printer,
otherwise new apsfilter won't work correctly
- To cleanup completely
- remove old spool dirs
- remove old apsfilter symlinks in $APS_BASEDIR/filter
- remove all /etc/apsfilterrc* files
- I recommend, other Unix distributions with precompiled gs packages
synchronize their gs 6.01 driver support with the FreeBSD port, so
that apsfilter and gs driver support is "in sync".
- --
Andreas Klemm http://people.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html
powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
New APSFILTER 541 and songs from our band - http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas
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