- Sat Mar 9 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-45mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 09/03/2002 (Added Canon BJC-255SP and
BJC-265SP to the printer database, HPIJS B4/B5 paper size fix, "Photo Full
Bleed" paper size in HPIJS only for HP PhotoSmart P100).
- Patched HPIJS to print correctly on A6 paper. - Fri Mar 8 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-44mdk
- New HPIJS patch from David Suffield: It fixes not only the duplex but
also printing on B4 and B5 paper. - Thu Mar 7 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-43mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 07/03/2002 (When "foomatic-configure"
creates a queue for LPRng, the permissions for the /var/log/lp-errs file
are set correctly now).
- Updated the "pentaxpj" driver to version 20020301-11. - Wed Mar 6 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-42mdk
- Added a patch for duplex printing with HPIJS from David Suffield.
- Wed Mar 6 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-41mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 05/03/2002 (New HP multi-function
devices: HP OfficeJet D series, HP LaserJet 33xx MFP series, added
Lexmark E210, bug in reading defaults of float options from PPD files
fixed, fixed Red Hat bug 58319, fixed quoting in driver command line for
PDQ, assured that "foomatic-gswrapper" is used for every driver).
- Added fix for duplex printing through IJS from David Suffield. - Mon Mar 4 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-40mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 04/03/2002 (Brother MFC 9600
prints 600 dpi with "hl1250", HP DeskJet 610CL prints best with "hpijs",
HP DeskJet 1125C and LaserJet 6P print best with GIMP-Print, fix for
option default choices with "+" character in PPD files, fix with PJL on
"lpdomatic").
- Applied fix from Andre Duclos (shirka@wanadoo.fr). The package did not
build on his machine without the fix ("foomatic-kitload" replaced by
"tar" to add the GIMP-Print XML files to the Foomatic database).
- Patched GIMP-Print to produce Foomatic data for the HP DeskJet 1125C and
LaserJet 6P. - Fri Mar 1 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-39mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 01/03/2002 (Many new printers,
especially Canon, "ppmtomd" driver, DeskJets have "hpijs" as default
driver).
- Added "ppmtomd": Unix driver for MicroDry Printers.
- Patched GIMP-Print to produce Foomatic data for more printers.
- Reworked patch 48, because PPC compilation was broken (Stew Benedict). - Thu Feb 28 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-38mdk
- Fixed chinese character support in GhostScript 6.53 (Du Xiaoming).
- Mon Feb 25 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-37mdk
- Re-activated the "x11alpha" (anti-aliasing X11) device, it was deactivated
in GhostScript 6.53 (Francois Pons).
- Removed the "-ffastmath" optimization option from the GhostScript
compilation. it breaks IJS/HPIJS (600 dpi on Letter/Legal paper did not
work) - Thu Feb 21 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-36mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 20/02/2002 (HPIJS 1.0.3, bugfixes).
- Updated GhostScript to version 6.53 to fix a rather serious security
problem, which allowed PostScript code to execute arbitrary commands.
It has also the IJS plug-in interface and CJK support integrated.
- Removed VFlib support and the VFlib-based drivers for japanese printers
from GhostScript. The patches do not compile under GhostScript 6.53 due
to the changes introduced with the security fix.
- Updated patches for X11 and SVGAlib drivers to be shared libraries for
GhostScript 6.53 (Francois Pons).
- Fixed bug in the printer test pages which prevented native PostScript
printers (PS Level 1 & 2) fromm printing the Mandrake logo.
- Corrected /usr/sbin/alignmargins to work with any GhostScript version.
- Patched GIMP-Print to support small paper sizes on Epson Stylus Pro
printers. - Tue Feb 5 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-35mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 05/02/2002 (Support for HPOJ,
bugfixes).
- Fixed Omni compilation for PPC (Stew Benedict).
- Used %ix86 macro (suggestion from Jeff Garzik)
- Used "drv_z42" tarball with pre-built Glade GUI because Glade needs
a working X display, even in the window-less "-w" mode (bug reported
by Jeff Garzik). - Thu Jan 24 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-34mdk
- Applied GIMP-Print patch to correct print head offsets on Epson Stylus
Photo 700 (this bug lead to a poor printout quality).
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 24/01/2002 (Epson EPL-5900 works
better with "pxlmono"). - Sun Jan 20 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-33mdk
- Updated HPIJS to version 1.0.2.
- Updated drv_z42 to version 0.3.4.
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 20/01/2002 (PPD file fix for
GhostScript 6.52). - Fri Jan 18 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-32mdk
- Updated the Epson-Kowa laser printer drivers to version 1.0.4, to
support also the Epson EPL-5900 and the Epson EPL-N2120.
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 18/01/2002 (New Epson lasers). - Wed Jan 16 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-31mdk
- Updated the "hpijs" driver to version 1.0.1 (bugfixes and completely free
license).
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 16/01/2002 (CUPS queues are set up
with PPD-O-Matic PPDs, auto-detection of file converters, bug fixes). - Tue Jan 15 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-30mdk
- Updated GhostScript to version 6.52.
- Updated gs-cjk to M2-R3 (xming).
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 14/01/2002 (several bugfixes).
- Removed slashes from menu entry for the Z42/Z43 maintenance tool.
- Removed Patch4, GS 6.52 could not create temporary files when this
patch was applied (Found with an HP DeskJet 990 and HPIJS1.0). - Fri Jan 11 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-29mdk
- Added Canon BJC-250/-1000 driver for GhostScript from Gergely Szasz
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 11/01/2002 ("bjc250gs" driver data,
several bugfixes). - Tue Jan 1 2002 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-28mdk
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 01/01/2002 (Worked around a bug in
HPIJS 1.0 which breaks the paper size setting via PostScript commands). - Fri Dec 21 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-27mdk
- Updated the "hpijs" driver to version 1.0.
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 20/12/2001.
- Used "%make" instead of "make" for the Omni driver and added
"CFLAGS=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS ..." so that $RPM_OPT_FLAGS is used.
- Made GIMP-Print user's guide being included.
- Added GhostScript wrapper for the Pentax PocketJet series.
- ml85p works again, re-activated. - Wed Dec 5 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-26mdk
- Rebuilt and re-introduced to the Cooker, the package was automatically
deleted by a bug in new upload scripts. - Thu Nov 29 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-25mdk
- Updated "pcl3" driver to version 3.3.
- Updated Omni to version 0.5.1.
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 30/11/2001. - Sat Nov 24 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-24mdk
- Updated Lexmark Z42/Z43 driver (drv_z42) to version 0.3.3.
- Updated GIMP-Print to version 4.2.0 final.
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 24/11/2001. - Tue Nov 20 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-23mdk
- Made Omni data only visible when Omni is installed, Omni is still in
experimental state
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 20/11/2001 (Updated docs).
- Omni produced garbage in /etc/ld.so.conf, fixed. - Fri Nov 16 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-22mdk
- Added "z42tool" a maintenance tool for the Lexmark Z42
- Updated GIMP-Print to version 4.1.99rc1.
- Updated Foomatic to the state of the 16/11/2001.
- Added "$CFLAGS" to all direct calls of gcc (to allow cross-compiling the
package).
- Added patch to build Samsung SmartGDI printer driver - PPC (Stew)
- Reworked hpijs ENDIAN patch - PPC (Stew)
- Added "unzip" to the BuildRequires.
- Fixed libgimpprint info file entry (/usr/share/info/dir conflict) (Stefan
van der Eijk)
- Removed obselete BuildRequires: docbook-style-dsssl ghostscript jadetex
openjade perl-DateManip perl-Parse-Yapp perl-XML-Parser perl-libxml-perl
tetex (Stefan van der Eijk)
- New %makeinstall totally broken, replaced by %old_makeinstall - Sun Oct 21 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-21mdk
- Corrected path setting for libxml in "setit" file and XML parser
Makefile of Omni
- New Foomatic data generator with cleaned-up printer, manufacturer,
option, and choice names. - Wed Oct 17 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-20mdk
- Updated Omni to version 0.5.0 (bugfixes, new printers)
- Updated GIMP-Print from CVS (bugfixes, new printers, User's Guide)
- Added Foomatic data for Omni
- Rebuilt GIMP-Print for libgimp1.2_1
- ml85p does not work with current kernel, deactivated - Wed Oct 10 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-19mdk
- Inserted new Mandrake logo in the alternative test pages
- GIMP-Print patch to make "Glossy" paper with 600x600 dpi working on the
HP DeskJet 810C/812C/840C/842C (fall back to "Premium" paper).
- Updated Foomatic: new printers, removed HP LaserJet 6L from
"lj5gray"/"lj5mono" drivers. - Wed Oct 10 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-18mdk
- Added driver for the Lexmark Z42
- inserted new Mandrake logo in test page
- Corrected marginless printing on the Epson Stylus Photo 890/1290 - Thu Oct 4 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-17mdk
- Updated Foomatic: Paper tray selection for all PCL lasers, new printer
models, various bugfixes.
- Updated GIMP-Print from CVS: near 4.1.99b3 (bugfixes)
- Added BuidRequires: libcups-devel, all Perl libraries needed to run
Foomatic
- Really make ml85p %{ix86}-specific
- Fix of some font names in kconfig.ps of vflib - Tue Sep 25 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-16mdk
- Fixed bug of sometimes options defined in the Foomatic database missing
in the driver description files for the spoolers.
- Fixed bug of the Lexmark Z23, Z33, and Z53 not working with Lexmark's
drivers.
- Changed priorities to make the "lxm3200" driver the default driver for
the Lexmark 3200, GIMP-Print is broken for this printer. - Sun Sep 23 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-15mdk
- Fixed bug of GhostScript ignoring the "Quality" option on the Lexmark Z52
and other printers (GIMP-Print driver). - Sat Sep 22 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-14mdk
- Fixed the "lexmarkwrapper" so that it works also with LPRng and PDQ.
- Fixed "foomatic-configure" to call "checkpc -f" after every manipulation
of LPRng queues, this corrects the permissions so that LPRng does not
refuse to print. - Fri Sep 21 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-13mdk
- Updated to GIMP-Print 4.1.99 beta 2 final (Fix for Epson Stylus Color 660,
it only spilled empty pages before). - Wed Sep 19 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-12mdk
- Updated GIMP-Print from CVS: near 4.1.99b2 (Fix of Epson output quality
settings). - Sat Sep 15 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-11mdk
- Removed automatic ownership/permission setting for /dev/oki4drv in the
oki4daemon. - Sat Sep 15 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-10mdk
- Activated "cfax" driver in GhostScript (for capifax, isdn4k-utils,
Bugzilla 3923) - Thu Sep 13 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-9mdk
- Patched dvipdf for better quality PDF output (patch from Giuseppe Ghibo)
- Made cupsomatic handling the "sides" (Duplex) option of CUPS handling
correctly. - Wed Sep 12 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-8mdk
- Foomatic updated for new inkjet drivers from Lexmark.
- HP LaserJet 5L does not work with lj5gray/lj5mono drivers, fixed.
- Options with On/Off, Yes/No, or True/False as choices broken, fixed.
- Removed entries for japanese printer drivers which are not supported
by our GhostScript. - Mon Sep 3 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-7mdk
- foomatic-configure supports setting a default printer now.
- Documentation files of Foomatic updated.
- Alps MD-1500 works also with the "ppmtocpva" driver.
- Updated GIMP-Print from CVS: 4.1.99b1.
- Adapted libgimpprint(-devel) packages to the library policy. - Sun Sep 2 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-6mdk
- Foomatic overview generation also accelerated with the C program, so also
the overview does not need to be pre-built.
- Bugfix in the determination of the default driver
(foomatic-preferred-driver), for some printers the default driver entry
did not get into the printer XML file.
- Added Apple LaserWriter 4/600.
- The HP LaserJet 5Si and 3200se support PJL, fixed appropriate database
entries.
- Various small fixes on the Foomatic database. - Tue Aug 28 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-5mdk
- Foomatic data generation accelerated substancially by a C program,
so no pre-building of the Foomatic data necessary any more (saves 30 h
of package build time and 30 MB of disk space on the destination machine).
- Added HP and Apollo printers: Apollo P-2100, P-2150, HP DeskJet 816C,
980C, e-printer e20, PhotoSmart P1215, P1218, OfficeJet K60, K80, V40,
PSC 300, 750.
- Added new Epson EPL and AcuLaser printers.
- Added HP DesignJet 750 (supported by GIMP-Print).
- Updated Foomatic data for the hpijs driver (inkjet driver of HP).
- Updated the Brother HL-1240/1250 driver to version 0.4.
- Added Omni 0.4.
- Added the laser printer drivers provided by Epson.
- Added the japanese printer drivers from Red Hat.
- Check whether the printer list of GIMP-Print does not contain printers
not existing in the Foomatic database.
- Updated GIMP-Print from CVS: 4.1.99a3.
- Adapted "alignmargins" script to GhostScript 6.51 and fixed a bug of the
CUPS default printer not being listed.
- Foomatic obsoletes out the rhs-printfilters and printtool packages now. - Sun Aug 12 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-4mdk
- Let printer-filters not activate the oki4daemon by default
- Sat Aug 11 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-3mdk
- Fixes on the usage of rlpr, nc, and smbclient by foomatic-configure
- Thu Aug 9 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-2mdk
- Precompiled Foomatic database
- Sun Aug 5 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-1mdk
- GhostScript was not able to open temporary files, removed O_CREAT flags
in src/gpmisc.c to fix it (ghostscript-6.51-10mdk).
- New CVS of GIMP-Print 4.1.99a2.
- Added Foomatic.
- Added tools and PostScript PPDs from former cups-drivers package.
- Updated "ppmtocpva" driver to version 1.0.
- Added some different test pages. - Fri Aug 3 2001 Till Kamppeter <till@mandrakesoft.com> 1.0-0.1mdk
- New CVS of GIMP-Print 4.1.99a2.
- GhostScript requires libpng and libintl1.
- Let all packages providing printer drivers being built by
the "printer-drivers" source package,
merged the source RPM/specfile of ghostscript, foomatic, cups-drivers,
and the GIMP-Print plugin for GIMP together, because they all depend on
the same GIMP-Print source tarball.
