********************************************** The updates here are scheduled for future inclusion in: rhs-printfilters-1.72 ********************************************** (1) If you have a printtool < 3.44 system (Red Hat 6.1 or earlier, Mandrake 7.0 or earlier) just get the updated RPMS rhs-printfilters-1.57-4ppa4.i386.rpm (for Red Hat) rhs-printfilters-1.58-4ppa5mdk.i386.rpm (for Mandrake) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa . (For older Red Hat or Mandrake systems, you may need to rebuild the source RPMs.) These RPMS already incorporate the changes described here, so just install the appropriate one. ------------------ (2) If you have printtool 3.44 or greater, but rhs-printfilters >= 1.61 and < 1.72 (Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.1) you may wish to manually update the files /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/printerdb /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ppaprint as described here. This will provide improved functionality of pnm2ppa configuration using printtool. (3) Future releases of Red Hat or Mandrake will probably include rhs-printfilters >= 1.72, so these changes will already be made. ================================================================= Instructions. (Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.1) (a) replace /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ppaprint . (as root:) cd /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters copy ppaprint-latest and printerdb-ppa to this directory, if necessary. (if you installed pnm2ppa-1.0 from a RPM they should be there already). mv ppaprint ppaprint-old mv ppaprint-latest ppaprint chmod 0755 ppaprint (b) update printerdb. Save your current printerdb: cp printerdb printerdb-saved Now edit printerdb to replace the PPA printer entries with the updated ones from printerdb-ppa. Use your favorite editor to cut out the older PPA printer entries from printerdb, and paste in the contents of printerdb-ppa in their place. **TIP: for this to work, the PPA Printer entries in your old printerdb must say "GSDriver: ppa" and *NOT* "GSDriver: pnmraw" (which is an older printerdb style meant for printtool < 3.44). "ppa" is not a true GS driver name, but a dummy device name added to the list of available drivers by printtool >= 3.44 after it has detected that pnm2ppa is installed. ------- Note that these manually-made changes may be lost whenever the rhs-printfilters rpm is updated using the rpm utility. Eventually, they will be incorporated in newer "official" releases of rhs-printfilters-1.72 or above, as they are released.