> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 9 17:12:36 2003 > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:32:42 +1000 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: LPRng: ifhp and Xerox 4400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small) > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Patrick Powell wrote: > > See http://www.linuxprinting.org for information on the foomatic-rip > > filter and this will be incorporated into ifhp: > > > > --with-foomatic-rip=/path/too/foomatic_rip > > > > As of the next release of ifhp, you will be able to use foomatic-rip > > and the associated ppd files with ifhp: > > What does that give you that just using foomatic-rip doesn't? > > I'm using foomatic-rip and lprng quite nicely. The first time I have > printing various documents and they all come out correctly. > > - Craig > -- > Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 > Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer > csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Currently, foomatic-rip does not handle the pagcounting and setup, as well as the (sometimes a little bit too) verbose diagnostics. And there are problems when you try to print some PCL files... I am working with Till Kamppeter (http://www.linuxprinting.org) to add additional information the PPD files used by the foomatic filter. At this point, there will hopefully be a merging of the foomatic-rip internals and ifhp. Thus, ifhp will use PPD files (if present) for the configuration information. And we will have one set of configuration information: the PPDS from www.linuxprinting.org, or you can generate your own using the foomatic-db-engine. Or you can set up a web server to generate them: wget http://www.linuxprinting.org/cgi-script/foomatic-ppd?driver=x&printer=y The idea is to try to have one refernece set of information about printers that will provide both the backend (ifhp/foomatic) and frontend (kprint, cups, lprinfo - ...:-) that will be able to tell you the options and configuration of a printer. While I am not overly thrilled with using a PPD file as a distribution media, it is a pretty simple format. Sooo.... Currently: lp:filter=/path/to/foomatic-rip :ppd=/path/to/ppd # next revison of foomatic lp:filter=/path/to/ifhp:ifhp=model=xxxx # next revision of ifhp :ppd=/path/to/ppd lp:filter=/path/to/ifhp :ppd=/path/to/ppd - when ifhp information merged with printer As an intermediate step, we might simply add an '*ifhp' field to the printcap file, making it possible to use a PPD file and skip the ifhp model information. Now I must warn you that this is simply a plan. I am currently working on migration in a simple way that will allow this to be done without too much pain, and will allow backwards compatibility. Patrick Powell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
