Gimp-Print 4.2.1-pre4, released March 30, 2002, is a pre-release of Gimp-Print 4.2.1. This prerelease offers a number of fixes and improvements over 4.2.0

This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data.

The Gimp Print plugin requires the Gimp 1.2.

The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true CMYK.

The Ghostscript driver requires Ghostscript 5.10, 5.50, 6.51, or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52).

Please read the README file for full instructions on building and installing this package.

Gimp-Print 4.2.1-pre4 contains the following major changes and fixes over Gimp-Print 4.2.1-pre3:

1) The CUPS drivers will now output the complete page when the job completes rather than waiting for the next job under some circumstances.

2) Page logging works correctly in CUPS.

3) The CUPS driver now offers both interrupt-driven and polled parallel ports for BSD; under some circumstances, the polled port is faster.

4) A Dutch translation has been added.

5) Quality improvements for pigment-based Epson Stylus Pro printers (5500, 7500, and 9500).

6) Very fast dithering now works correctly.

7) Epson Stylus Pro printers now print correctly positioned on roll feed paper, and will not attempt to print to the edge of the page.

8) Additional Epson, Canon, Okidata, and Kyocera laser printers have been tested.

9) Foomatic data for the IJS interface of GIMP-Print is generated now.

The following bugs are fixed in 4.2.1-pre4:

533400 Very fast dithering works incorrectly 525779 Buffering bug in epson cups backend 528922 rastertoprinter doesn't log pages 537248 IJS driver mis-handles -r option

The following critical bug has been reported against all 4.2 releases to date and is believed to be unresolved in this release. It is possible that the fix for bug 525779 has partially solved this. The symptoms are that prints to Windows shared printers are incomplete: the bottom of the last page will not be printed. There is no known workaround for this issue.

510185 Incomplete print using CUPS->Samba

Gimp-Print 4.2.1-pre5, released April 7, 2002, is a pre-release of Gimp-Print 4.2.1. This prerelease offers a number of fixes and improvements over 4.2.0

This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data.

The Gimp Print plugin requires the Gimp 1.2.

The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true CMYK.

The Ghostscript driver requires GNU Ghostscript 5.10, 5.50, 6.51, or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52).

The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU GhostScript 6.53 or later or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later.

Please read the README file for full instructions on building and installing this package.

Gimp-Print 4.2.1-pre5 contains the following major changes and fixes over Gimp-Print 4.2.1-pre4:

1) A number of bug fixes to the IJS driver (please see below for details).

2) Under some circumstances, the PCL driver could overflow an internal buffer, potentially causing a crash.

3) The user's manual has been updated, and a section on escputil added.

The following bugs are fixed in 4.2.1-pre5:

539013 IJS driver mispositions image on page 538500 PCL driver crash
538497 IJS driver sets incorrect paper size 537293 IJS/foomatic driver crashes printing grayscale

The following critical bug has been reported against all 4.2 releases to date and is unresolved in this release. The symptoms are that prints to Windows-hosted printers are incomplete: the bottom of the last page will not be printed. Some people have reported success when the host is an NT-based system rather than a Windows 95/98/ME-based system. The only definitive workaround is to physically host the printer on a UNIX/Linux system. It is not known at this time if the underlying problem is in Gimp-print or in other software.

510185 Incomplete print to Windows-hosted printers