Date:  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:33:59 -0400
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Gutenprint printer driver for CUPS added

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From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM at DESPAMos2voice.org>

Paul Smedley has created a Gutenprint printer driver. 
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/gutenprt

"I've used the IBM postscript driver source as a basis, and fixed a couple 
of bugs in it that prevented OS/2 applications from being able to change 
CUPS printer settings.

Additionally, I've preloaded around 600 PPD files from Gutenprint 5.2.0 
beta 3 into the driver so that most users won't need to go through the 
process of importing PPD files into the driver.

Download link: 
http://download.smedley.info/gutenprt-5.2.0-beta3-os2-20080713.zip

Known issues:

     * Lucide and odin apps are unable to change some printer settings due 
to issues with pscript.drv's (on which gutenprt.drv is bases) inability to 
inject the relevant postscript code when passed raw postscript code."

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful.  He needs user 
feedback to continue work on these projects.  He maintains a bug tracker 
for many projects at http://mantis.smedley.info  It just requires a simple 
registration.


If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and 
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation 
either via Paypal using the  link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys 
Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/



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