Hi,
I have released cups-filters 1.18.0 now, with the following changes:
- braille: Add support for page-ranges option. Thanks to
Samuel Thibault for this patch (Pull request #12).
- braille: Fix supporting docx and LO file names with
spaces. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch (Pull
request #11).
- .gitignore: Updated and cleaned up.
- Build system: Make sure that "make dist" always includes all
files of the repository, plus the files generated by
./autogen.sh, independent of the system configuration and
the used ./configure options.
- pdftoijs, pdftoopvp: Build pdftoijs and pdftoopvp only on
demand (via "--enable-ijs" and "--enable-opvp" on the
./configure command line). There are actually no known
printer drivers using these filters. If no one complains
about the missing filters they will get completely removed.
- Build system: Set default path for pdftops to
/usr/bin/pdftops also for cross-compiling (Bug #1417).
- cups-browsed: Set "printer-location" as an attribute and not
as an option when creating/updating a CUPS queue (Bug
#1413).
- braille: Fix handling non-printable characters in BRF
files. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch.
- braille: Fix printing backslashes in BRF files. Thanks to
Samuel Thibault for this patch.
- braille: use application/vnd.cups-brf instead of
text/vnd.cups-brf. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch.
- braille: Make sure liblouis emits pure BRF output. Thanks to
Samuel Thibault for this patch.
- braille: Spaces at the head of lines were not getting
embossed, because bash would eat them in the read
command. IFS allows to avoid the issue. Thanks to Samuel
Thibault for this patch.
- gstoraster: Emit proper error message if Ghostscript is
missing. Thanks to Peter De Wachter (pdewacht at gmail dot
com) for the patch (Bug #1415).
- braille: Old bash does not like quotes, like in '$(("123" +
0))'. Removed unneeded quotes. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for
this patch.
- braille: Index V5 embossers are compatible with the V4
protocol so we do not need driver changes, we just need to
advertise the support. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this
patch.
This release consists mainly of fixes and improvements for the Braille
embosser support, but also does fixes on other filters, fixes of make
dist, and especially removes the pdftoopvp and pdftoijs filters by
default due to the fact that there are no know printer drivers actually
using them.
Note the removal of pdftoopvp and pdftoijs. My intention is to deprecate
these filters when they are actually not used any more. There are not
only no printer drivers known to me that use these filters, the filters
themselves use unstable, non-public interfaces of Poppler and therefore
they often need changes for new releases of Poppler. Therefore I want to
find out whethere I can remove these filters from the cups-filters project.
Now I want that distributions ship without these filters, at least with
the filters not being installed by default and find out whether this
leads to complaints. Ifthere are no complaints, the filters get removed.
If there are complaints, the reporter has to give a reference to the
driver which we then add to the documentation of cups-filters.
For distro packaging I have two suggestions:
- Replace the source code tarball of the current package by this version
and do not change anything else. This makes the mentioned filters and
its auxiliary files go away. Perhaps the debian/*.install files will
need slight changes.
- Build with the "--enable-ijs" and "--enable-opvp" options for
./configure but split out these two filters and their auxiliary files
into their own binary packages, for example "cups-filters-ijs" and
"cups-filters-opvp". DO NOT seed these new binary packages for the
default installation.
DO NOT build with the "--enable-ijs" and "--enable-opvp" options WITHOUT
splitting off the filter binaries!
Here are the filters and their auxiliary files:
IJS:
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoijs
/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/HP-PhotoSmart_Pro_B8300-hpijs-pdftoijs.ppd
OPVP:
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoopvp
/etc/fonts/conf.d/99pdftoopvp.conf
Please package this version for Debian so that it syncs into Ubuntu. Thanks.
In general, repos are hosted as GIT here on OpenPrinting's GitHub:
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/
Also releases are listed here.
Till
