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[Gimp-print-announce] ANNOUNCE: Gutenprint 5.2.0-beta4 Release
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From: Robert K. <rl...@al...> - 2008-08-18 02:20:26
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Gutenprint 5.2.0-beta4 is the last planned beta release of Gutenprint
5.2. We expect to release a release candidate around September 15 and
the 5.2 stable release, which will be named 5.2.1, around October 1.
Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.0-beta4! Please read these release notes
carefully.
Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most
common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or
others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX, Linux,
and Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above) systems. Gutenprint includes CUPS
and Foomatic drivers, and an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP that
replaces the print plug-in packaged with the GIMP distribution.
Gutenprint 5.2 no longer supports Macintosh OS X 10.2.
Gutenprint currently supports over 1300 printer models.
Gutenprint 5.2.0-beta4 is the final planned beta release of Gutenprint
5.2.
*** NOTE TO PACKAGERS: Please read the file README.package for issues
that are of interest to distributors and packagers of Gutenprint.
It is not necessary for end users of Gutenprint to read this file.
* CHANGES FROM GUTENPRINT 5.2.0-BETA3:
1) Gutenprint 5.2 no longer supports Macintosh OS X 10.2; it now
requires 10.3 (Panther) or higher. This is due to a new library
requirement (for the iconv library) that is not present in 10.2.
2) New printers supported in this release:
- Epson inkjet printers:
B-300
B-308
B-500DN
B-508DN
Offirio PX-B300
Offirio PX-B500
Stylus CX5500
Stylus Photo R1900 (preliminary, further tuning may be performed)
Stylus Pro 7800 (experimental)
Stylus Pro 7880 (experimental)
Stylus Pro 9800 (experimental)
Stylus Pro 9880 (experimental)
Stylus Pro 11880 (experimental)
3) The CUPS driver will no longer attempt to find a matching
predefined page size when a custom page size is passed in. This
yields more accurate printing sizes for custom paper sizes. In
addition, it avoids a problem with unnecessary margins being
imposed when the paper size is approximately 4.7x6.8" (120x173
mm) due to a specific defined page size with those dimensions and
tear-off borders.
The Foomatic/IJS driver has been partially fixed; it will only
attempt to find a precise match. We are investigating whether it
is possible to completely fix this driver.
4) PPD files generated by cups-genppd and the CUPS driver interface
(gutenprint.5.2) now include, by default, all localizations in a
single file. This is referred to as "globalized PPD files".
This functionality is supported by CUPS 1.2 and higher.
Single-language PPD files are still generated on request, or if
CUPS 1.1 is in use.
cups-genppdupdate will normally upgrade all PPD files to
globalized ones if CUPS 1.2 or higher is in use or if
pregenerated PPD files are used, but will otherwise generate
single-language files. This behavior can be controlled as
follows:
- If -l<language> is passed to cups-genppdupdate, it will be
honored no matter what release of Gutenprint is in use. This
may be used if applications have issues with globalized PPD
files. We would like reports of any such applications. The
list of languages accepted is as follows:
C English (US)
cs Czech
da Danish
de German
el Greek
en_GB English (UK)
es Spanish
fr French
hu Hungarian
ja Japanese
nb Norwegian
nl Dutch
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
sk Slovak
sv Swedish
zh_TW Simplified Chinese
- If -loriginal is passed, the original language of the PPD file
will be honored.
- If no -l option is passed, the original language will be
honored if -r5.0 or -r5.1 is passed (i. e. if cups-genppdupdate
is used to downgrade to an older version of Gutenprint), or if
CUPS 1.1 is in used.
- A new configure option --enable-globalized-cups-ppds (or if not
desired, --disable-globalized-cups-ppds) has been added to
enable or disable pre-generating globalized PPD files. This
option is only used if --enable-cups-ppds is set. It defaults
to "yes" if CUPS 1.2 or above is in use or "no" if CUPS 1.1 is
in use.
5) The CUPS driver is now localized using built-in code, hopefully
eliminating problems with PPD files not always being translated
properly.
6) Progress and error messages produced by the CUPS raster driver
are now localized.
7) The data in the Epson driver that was not converted to external
data files in Gutenprint 5.2.0-beta3 has now been converted to
external data files in XML format. While this should yield no
user-visible change, these changes are extensive. Please report
any issues.
8) The CUPS driver now provides an Output Order option, where
appropriate, in all cases. This worked prior to 5.2.0-beta3 and
was broken in that release only.
9) The Danish and Dutch translations have been updated.
10) Borderless support has been added to the Epson Stylus Pro
7600/9600 and the margins have been corrected.
11) Quality presets have been added to the PCL (HP printers and
laser printers).
12) Certain legacy applications (most notably Microsoft Office) did
not print correctly on printers capable of high resolution, due
to inability to handle the specified resolutions. This release
works around that issue by not advertising very high resolutions
in a way that these applications will fail on.
13) Print quality has been improved on Epson PictureMate printers
with 4-color inks.
14) Print quality has been improved on the Epson B-300 and related
printers.
15) Print quality has been improved in borderless mode on a large
number of Epson photo-oriented inkjet printers. The specific
issue is that print faded near the bottom of the page when using
borderless mode.
16) Printing has been corrected in borderless mode on the Epson
Stylus C110 and C120 printers. The specific issue is that
printing near the bottom of the page was compressed vertically.
This problem is related to, but not identical to, the previous
issue.
17) Print quality has been improved at very high resolutions
(resolution settings of 2880x2880 and 5760x2880 DPI, or quality
settings of Ultra Photo or Best when high quality photo papers
are in use) on a large number of Epson photo-oriented inkjet
printers. The specific issue is that print showed fine lines
(without actually fading) near the bottom of the page. This
issue was present in both borderless and non-borderless printing.
18) The GIMP plugin now offers additional options for certain
printers.
19) Color Correction is now shown on the basic output adjustment
menu rather than the advanced menu.
20) Epson printers will now correctly handle color output if
quadtone inks are in use by printing in grayscale even though
color is specified.
21) The Epson Stylus Photo R800 now works properly. It was broken
in 5.2.0-beta2 and would not print at all.
22) The Epson Stylus CX8300 and CX8400 now print correctly, although
the colors may be retuned before final release.
23) Additional resolutions of 360 DPI Enhanced, 720x360 DPI
Enhanced, and 720 DPI High Quality have been added for the Epson
Stylus C110 and C120 to reduce banding at the expense of some
output performance. These offer improvements primarily for
grayscale output.
24) A problem whereby the CUPS driver could consume excessive
amounts of CPU and generate no output with Epson PictureMate and
E-series compact photo printers has been fixed.
25) The Epson Stylus CX7400, DX7400, and DX7450 now print correctly
at all resolutions. Previously, printing at 720x360 DPI or below
was incorrect. Output will be rather grainy.
26) The PostScript driver now correctly handles certain PPD files
that were not correctly handled in recent releases.
27) The PostScript driver now provides default page sizes of Letter,
A4, and Custom in the event that no PPD file is provided.
--
Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lp...@uu...
Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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