Open Source BSD Printing Software

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

A very high quality package of printer drivers for CUPS on Linux and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. This project also maintains an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP 2.x from the same code base.

JasperReports Library is the world's most popular open source business intelligence and reporting engine. It is entirely written in Java and it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word. The project is also available at: https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports Jaspersoft Studio is the open source report designer for the JasperReports Library. https://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jaspersoft-studio JasperReports Server is the most popular open source interactive reporting and analytics server built-on JasperReports Library. https://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-server JasperReports IO is for reporting and data visualization in a world of cloud, microservices, and DevOps. https://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-io

Fonts and font metrics customarily distributed with Ghostscript. Currently includes the 35 standard PostScript fonts and a grab-bag of others.

A collection of scalable Hebrew fonts for GNU/Linux.

TCPDF (DEPRECATED → use https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf)

Report Manager is both a print scheme designer (report) and a high level printing (reporting) engine. Also a TCP Report Server and a Web Report Server (PDF on the fly), supports Windows and Linux. Connectivity to almost all databases is provided.

Java class library for generating reports. XML-based templates provide flexible reporting and printing functionality using data from multiple sources and supports output to display devices, printers, PDF, Excel, HTML, XHTML, PlainText, XML and CSV files.

JasperStarter is a command line launcher and batch compiler for JasperReports.

Barcode4J is a flexible generator for barcodes written in Java and available under the Apache License v2.0. Features: Extensions for Apache FOP, Xalan-J and SAXON, Servlet, command-line interface, output to SVG, EPS, Java2D/AWT and bitmaps.

Bangla Computing and Localization Project for the Bangla speaking people.

A Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition, compress, encrypt, decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more.

gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll find at most office supply stores.

NOTE: FontForge has moved to fontforge.github.io, newer binaries and sources are available at github.com/fontforge. FontForge allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts. You may create new ones or modify old ones. It is also a format converter and can interconvert between PostScript (ascii & binary Type1, some Type3, some Type0), TrueType, OpenType (Type2), CID, SVG

CUPS back-end for the canon printers using the proprietary USB over IP BJNP protocol. This back-end allows Cups to print over the network to a Canon printer. The design is based on reverse engineering of the protocol. Version 2.0 adds ink-level reporting and improved out-of-paper detection. Version 2.0.1 is now released under GPLv2 or later to be compatible with the changed cups license. No other changes. Version 2.0.2 fixes a compile error with GCC9 Version 2.0.3 Fix GCC10 compile errors. increase status buffer size for newer printers that send larger status messages

PSlib is a C-library for generating multi page PostScript documents. There are functions for drawing lines, arcs, rectangles, curves, etc. PSlib also provides very sophisticated functions for text output including hyphenation and kerning.

CUPS is the widely used printing system for UNIX-like operating systems that presents a modern, network-centric print stack built around IPP. It includes the scheduler (the print server), filters, backends, and PPD/driver plumbing needed to accept jobs, determine capabilities, rasterize or convert, and deliver output to devices over local and network transports. Its modular pipeline lets administrators and vendors plug in drivers or filter chains while retaining a consistent user-facing interface across platforms. Client tools and libraries provide command-line and programmatic access for queue management, job submission, and printer discovery. Over time CUPS has aligned closely with driverless printing via IPP-Everywhere/AirPrint-style capability exchange, reducing the need for vendor-specific drivers on many devices. The project’s reference implementation is battle-tested across desktops, servers, and embedded systems that expose print services to a network.

Barbecue is a Java library that enables the creation of barcodes in a variety of standard formats that can be displayed as Swing/AWT components, included in printed output, generated as EPS and SVG and displayed in a web application.

Linux printing, scanning, and photo-card access on most HP multi-function peripherals.

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

Support for the Epson EPL-5x00L/6x00L printer family under linux and other unix-like systems. This effort is not endorsed by nor affiliated with Epson. Currently 5700L/5800L/5900L, 6100L/6200L. Optionally use libusb and libieee1284 for wider portability

ChordPro creates elegant, stafless lead sheets for musicians needing only chords and lyrics. It processes plain text input in ChordPro format and it is a rewrite of the old though still popular Chord/Chordii programs.

LaTeX-Mk is a collection of makefile fragments for managing small to large LaTeX based documentation projects. The idea is that especially large documents, there may be many many steps required to typeset the document (export modified figures to postscr

Stamp Page Creator is a free philately program for creating and printing pages for postage stamp collections. The program has an easy user interface: What you see is what you get. Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc. supported.

Converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).