the PASSWORD environment variable
* custom printer queue names really work now (the given default
name is "lp" if it isn't used already)
* /etc/apsfilter/$QUEUE/apsfilterrc.$USER is another config file
* new config variable: DISABLE_DUPLEX (needed if apsfilter is not
running on the host the print job was started)
* more verbose apsfilterrc template
* some documentation updates
NIS corrections.
* statement concerning personal e-mail to me and SUPPORT in general.
* make it possible to run apsfilter in NIS environment
extraction of $HOMEDIR works now.
idea from: Volker Seebode <vas@plesnik.de>
* fixes for hpdj printers, special treatment for driver hpdj_u970
* BITSPERPIXEL can't be changed for hpdj
* due to popular demand: ASCII_PPS and ASCII_LANDSCAPE change the
printout just for ASCII files, independent of PS_NUP and LANDSCAPE
(but these provide default values if needed)
* BINDING now uses "short" and "long" instead of psset-switches
* fixed printing on PS-printers and during debugging
Sa 2 Sep 2000 18:53:41 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* replace list of apsfilter contributors with this link:
http://www.apsfilter.org/contrib.html
Sa 2 Sep 2000 12:57:15 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* added working watermark template
from Andreas Reuter <ar205@bonzo.geowiss.nat.tu-bs.de>
this file is the basis to _dynamically_ create backgrounds
for every printed page, i.e.: "internal use only", "Top Secret"
etc. Probably we'll use it this way in the future:
lpr -C wmark="Top Secret" file
Sa 2 Sep 2000 10:40:32 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* be more verbose about what A2PS_OPTS gives you
(overwrites the complete a2ps commandline)
Fr 1 Sep 2000 17:25:12 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* yes, we can remove the two entries from KNOWN_BUGS
These entries are no apsfilter bugs.
Have been added to FAQ
* FAQ has been updated on webserver.
Fr 1 Sep 2000 16:19:35 CEST Michael Lossin <losse@germanymail.com>
* custom printer queue names, as suggested by Jef Moskot
* cloning spool dir permissions with chmod (I think this needs
the GNU version)
* call checkpc after printcap fiddling (will be ignored by
BSD spoolers)
* faster code insertion for paper tray selection with awk, as
suggested by Beat Rubischon
* color mode fixed for hpdj
* small changes in class option code
* INSTALL, README and apsfilterrc updates
* remove unneeded docu .... doc/methods, doc/features,
doc/WHAT_AM_I KNOWN_BUGS
and by me:
* still keep KNOWN_BUGS have to test this ...
* update Makefile (remove nuked stuff)
* check for checkpc before using it.
* add /usr/local/sbin for checkpc
to "raw" read the input. Check if the read command
can handle "-r" and use it if possible
* fix some minor bugs with PostScript handling
Submitted by: Michael Lossin <losse@germanymail.com>
* ASCII_STYLE is gone; use PS_NUP and LANDSCAPE now (class
options: 1pps, 2pps, 4pps, 8pps, landscape, portrait)
* new config option: HARDWARE_DUPLEX; set this for printers
that can handle duplex printing by themselves
* new function: ps_postprocessing() handles all PS_UTILS etc.
* tray selection for duplex printers (as a shell function)
* more class options: shortbind, longbind, tray0...tray9,
book; related config options: BINDING, PAPERTRAY, PS_BOOK
* give some more info on how to manually flip sheets
* SETUP: fix SMB_FLAGS line for smbclient.conf
* use "-r" option for many read operations
* small fixes here and there
Update to this snap is highly recommended.
Michael Loßin <phallobst@web.de>
--------------------------------
Here are some small changes to the duplex code, more class stuff
and several minor tweaks:
* duplex printing:
- "forced simplex" mode was totally fscked up
(infinite loop _and_ wrong print command)
- use psselect _or_ pstops to extract odd/even pages
- one less temporary file
* new function send_mail for duplex and failure messages
* DVIPS_REVERSE and ACROREAD_REVERSE are gone; PS_UTILS
should be used to correct _all_ file formats
* new class options:
- a3,a4,letter,legal,ledger (paper size)
- a2ps,mpage,recode (ASCII filter)
- 1pps,2pps,4pps,8pps (pages per sheet)
- border,noborder,header,noheader (ASCII style)
- landscape (force orientation for ASCII and DVI)
- simplex (force non-duplex mode)
- color,mono (color handling)
* FAQ update
* slight manpage fixes
* Makefile fixes
* small cosmetic changes here and there
changes from me:
----------------
* SETUP: A -> abort, I -> install a printer, Q finish installation
I think quit is the usual leave operation
* hint for FreeBSD ports collection, not to install manpages
* SETUP, apsfilter: Change my mail address to andreas@apsfilter.org
* SETUP: make more clear how to restart the lineprinter scheduler
* SETUP: install_man_pages:
- document 'default' to not install manpages when simply
hitting RETURN, ie. when installing from FreeBSD ports
collection
- its not clear if FreeBSD user used ports collection or
not, so ask if manual pages should be installed or not
* SETUP: save 2 seconds sleep by combining a message
* FAQ, use the SGML based version
Changes to the FAQ should directly be made to the doc tree !
* TODO: remove resolved items, update some ITEMS and one new.
machine). So here now some bugfixes to make SETUP work again !
* SETUP: fix permissions of $SPOOLDIR
700 was to restrictive for BSD.
TODO: "clone" permissions of $SPOOL
* SETUP: bugfix: BSD needs /usr/sbin in PATH to find chown.
added /sbin as well, since this is unexpensive and possibly
needed for other systems.
* SETUP: cosmetic, reformat menues to still fit within 25 lines
* SETUP: fix: grep -c needs an argument (".") in echo "\c" | grep -c .
to work on FreeBSD and possibly other BSDs with GNU grep 2.4
my dual PIII-700 trying to figure out the sizes of the
primary and secondary caches. The sizes turned out to be
rather wrong (definetly true for the L2 cache, may be L1
is indeed 32Kb). Their algorithm seems bogus to me, but
most importantly, the obtained values are NOT USED
anywhere in the GhostScript code... One of the submitted
patches rips the "cache size" section from the genarch
entirely.
The attached modification and new patches also:
. replace the use of mktemp/fopen with mkstemp/fdopen
. modify the unix-gcc.mak so that there is no need for
GNU-make
PR: 20038
Submitted by: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
apsfilter 6.0-RELEASE.
- The installation directory changed
from ${PREFIX}/apsfilter
to ${PREFIX}/share/apsfilter
- Its possible to run SETUP on a NFS client from mounted ${PREFIX}/share
and so to install apsfilter on NFS clients ...
- Now Linux and FreeBSD have the same installation directory.
- /etc/apsfilter contains since 6.0 (2 weeks ago) a little directory
structure for every printer.
- Switching between apsfilter releases is possible by simply changing
the destination of the symblic link /etc/apsfilter/basedir.
Apsfilter V 6.0 _is_ in my humble opineon stable and useable and
the best apsfilter release ever since filtersetup and such things
have gone ... apsfilter has been modernized from ground up.
So please test test test.
last recent changes:
Mo 14 Aug 2000 07:05:28 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* SETUP: use "-" instead of "-_", as reported from
Hal Bower. To make print_testpage work on every gs version.
For printing the test page this is enough.
* info file fix: use new domain "apsfilter.org"
* refresh info concerning mailing-lists, the following are
available now:
- apsfilter-announce Announcements
- apsfilter-chat talk/chat around apsfilter and printing
- apsfilter-current developer version of apsfilter
- apsfilter-cvs Commit Messages of Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-devel Closed List for Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-hackers Technical Discussion, code submissions
- apsfilter-help User Support / Help Forum
- apsfilter-printing Printing under Unix environment
- apsfilter-stable apsfilter stable release (5.x)
Add patch 5.4.2 to RELENG_5
Things that makes me wonder:
a) patch is unable to remove make-release, that vanished in RELENG_5
so I had to remove the diff for that. Don't know if our patch is
so dumb, or if cvs diff doesn't generate the right things.
The complete diff concerning this is rejected.
b) the CONFIGURE TARGET OF OUR PORTS COLLECTION STILL doesn't work.
Could someone please tell me, if I missed something ???
Suddenly the apsfilter configure script isn't executed anymore
and so the apsfilter port doesn't create Makefile.inc to resolve
the port dependencies, when being called "interactively"...
XFree86 (3 or 4) to depend to when USE_XLIB is set.
XFREE86_VERSION defaults to 3 for now, but adventurous users can
override it in /etc/make.conf. When XFREE86_VERSION=3, USE_XLIB
will add a dependency to x11/XFree86; when it is set to 4, the
dependency will be to x11/XFree86-4-libraries. When
XFREE86_VERSION=4, the PKG_IGNORE_DEPENDS and ALWAYS_BUILD_DEPENDS
hacks to avoid messing with XFree86 are turned off.
Since XFree86 version 4 includes some software that used to be
separate ports, when XFREE86_VERSION=3 the following variables are
provided:
USE_DGS LIB_DEPENDS on x11/dgs
USE_FREETYPE LIB_DEPENDS on print/freetype
USE_MESA LIB_DEPENDS on graphics/Mesa3
USE_XPM LIB_DEPENDS on graphics/xpm
When XFREE86_VERSION=4, these variables have no effect. The
LIB_DEPENDS in the tree for the above four ports have all been
converted to the USE_* counterparts. For your information, this
is the count of the number of ports:
USE_DGS 0
USE_FREETYPE 16
USE_MESA 36
USE_XPM 236
There is a new variable, XAWVER, which is set to 6 when
XFREE86_VERSION=3 and 7 when XFREE86_VERSION=4. This is also
passed to PLIST_SUB so ports that build Xaw based shared libraries
can use this variable to substitute the shlib version number.
There is also a provision of using a separate mtree file for
XFREE86_VERSION=4, but that part is not enabled yet.
Reviewed by: the ports list
Tested by: make index (XFREE86_VERSION=3 only)
(2) Add hebrew to list of valid categories.
Submitted by: nbm
completely to www.apsfilter.org
Many thanks to the FreeBSD developer team, Jordan, WC,
who made distribution of apsfilter possible for years.
Changes:
- checksums changed
- Redesign concerning patches to save CVS repository space
remove patches in patches directory completely !
- use PATCHFILES in Makefile instead, which are actually
smaller changes !
(2) Now it is not necessary to exist a file "info/dir"
when install-info is executed.
By (1) and (2), I removed the next line:
[ -f %D/info/dir ] || sed -ne 1,/Menu:/p /usr/share/info/dir > %D/info/dir
from PLIST or Makefile
CV: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Texinfo.el is a major mode elisp for editing Texinfo files.
Texinfmt.el is for formatting Texinfo files into Info files.
Submitted by: OKAZAKI Tetsurou <okazaki@be.to>
o Additional "post-5.4.2 Release" features:
- AppleTalk Remote printer support (via netatalk's pap(1) utility).
Experimental, please test !
- new revised uniprint profiles from Harold Bower <HalBower@worldnet.att.net>
and additionally some new for:
- Epson Stylus 800 (Monochrome) and
- Epson LQ-570/870/1070/1170 24-pin Dot-Matrix
- prevent printing of an empty page when using raw printer, default is off now.
- bugfix: older gs versions (< v6.x) doesn't support "-_", which allows more efficient read operation. The bug prevented apsfilter to work with the
older gs versions.
- bugfix: hpdj (3rd party gs driver) doesn't like the -sBitsPerPixel option. So stripp it off, if using hpdj driver.
- FAQ file cleanups
- better hpdj driver defaults for HP DJ 970 printers
- some cleanups in code when printing PDF files
- and other things ....
Hi,
by accident I found that a2ps dumps core if invoked with
options for the old a2ps version.
a2ps -f -F7.0
reproduces the problem. With the following patch the problem
seems to be cured.
The patches work.
Submitted by: Oliver Adler <oli@devsoft.devsoft.com>
previous commit message to bsd.port.mk, which said INSTALL_SHLIBS. Boo.)
Line up the rhs of variable assignments nicely. Remove a couple of extra
whitespaces while I'm here.
Suggested by: sobomax
