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ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.3.0

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ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.2.1 Robert L Krawitz 27 Apr 03:42
ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.2.1 Kurt Pfeifle 27 Apr 11:26
ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.3.0 Robert L Krawitz 28 Apr 05:33
Robert L Krawitz
2002-04-27 03:42:25 UTC (almost 22 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.2.1

Gimp-Print 4.2.1, released April 26, 2002, is a stable release in the Gimp-Print 4.2 line. This release primarily contains bug fixes; the one major piece of new functionality is an IJS-based Ghostscript plugin driver. Please check the supported printers list for a complete list of supported printers; there have been a few additions from 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 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.2.0:

* Major Bugs Fixed:

1) Canon printers should now print with correct scaling at all supported resolutions, and the CMYK printers should print with optimum quality. However, the photo printers (which use special cartridges with light cyan and magenta inks) are currently unable to use the photo cartridges; they are limited to ordinary CMYK printing.

2) The escputil command is translated.

3) It is now possible to print at all resolutions on large format PCL printers.

4) The Ghostscript driver now prints with the same quality as the other drivers at all resolutions on all printers (in 4.2.0, Epson printers printed with poor quality at high resolutions).

5) CUPS PPD files should operate correctly with the Adobe PostScript driver (and other PostScript drivers).

6) Gimp-Print now builds successfully on Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and Macintosh OS X.

* New Functionality:

1) A new driver, based on the IJS architecture, is included in this release. This driver is compatible with GNU Ghostscript 6.53 and above, and AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 and above. IJS is a new architecture for Ghostscript drivers; rather than having to build the driver into Ghostscript, the driver runs as a separate process. Foomatic data is provided for this driver.

2) New translations for the Slovak, Greek, and Dutch languages are provided.

* Quality Improvements:

1) Additional tuning has been done for some Epson Stylus printers, in particular the Stylus Pro 5500, 7500, and 9500.

2) Epson Stylus Pro printers can now print to letter size (and smaller) paper.

3) The Very Fast dither algorithm has been sped up in certain cases.

4) Some quality improvements for the Epson 680/777 driver.

* Exceptions and Workarounds:

1) If you have built and installed the foomatic-db-gimpprint package from any gimp-print 4.2.1-pre* tarball, or from CVS, you will need to manually remove it prior to installing the final 4.2.1 debs. This is because it has been renamed to foomatic-db-gimp-print to match the foomatic naming scheme. There is only a guaranteed upgrade path between official releases to avoid unnecessary dependency complexities.

The following bugs have been fixed in 4.2.1:

485156 Debian build broken in 4.2.0 488865 escputil isn't translated
493772 360dpi is not a valid resolution 493838 canon print scaling broken
496813 Z42 issues
499200 ESP 1280/1290 need special deinit code 499203 ESP 780/820 have different paper codes 499299 z42 border
502713 Restricted resolution on DesignJet 507767 Parameters not set in CUPS driver 507770 Unset parameters in Ghostscript driver 507773 Old-style GS build broken
516268 Erroneous comparison
518224 makeinfo fails during build
521694 CUPS build broken in 4.2.1-pre1 525779 Buffering bug in epson cups backend 528922 rastertoprinter doesn't log pages 533400 Very fast dithering works incorrectly 537248 IJS driver mis-handles -r option 537293 IJS/foomatic driver crashes printing grayscale 538497 IJS driver sets incorrect paper size 538500 PCL driver crash
539013 IJS driver mispositions image on page 540307 Syntax error in CloseUI in PPD files 543562 Portability issues
548844 OS X support

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

Kurt Pfeifle
2002-04-27 11:26:52 UTC (almost 22 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.2.1

Robert L Krawitz wrote:

Gimp-Print 4.2.1, released April 26, 2002, is a stable release in the Gimp-Print 4.2 line.

[....]

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.

What about ESP Ghostscript 7.05-1? Is this in the category "or later"?

Kurt

Robert L Krawitz
2002-04-28 05:33:32 UTC (almost 22 years ago)

ANNOUNCE: Gimp-Print 4.3.0

Gimp-Print 4.3.0, released April 27, 2001, is a development release of this package.

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 5.50, 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 4.3.0 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.2.1:

1) A new dithering algorithm, EvenTone, is supported. EvenTone screening was invented by Raph Levien, and produces noticeably superior results particularly for continuous tone images such as photographs. EvenTone dithering produces a slight "waterfall" effect which may render it unsuitable for line art and graphics using extremely pale tones on some printers.

2) Significant reorganization of the internal interfaces between the family drivers, the dither code, and the weave code, to enable an arbitrary number of subchannels (rather than just 2 each of CMY and 1 K).

3) Reorganization of the build system to use automake 1.6 and autoconf 2.52.