Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Complete lists of printer/mode changes from 5.2.10 and 5.2.11-pre1

[Gernot H. <aik...@gm...>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Gernot Hassenpflug
<aik...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> wrote:
>> Here are the changed printers and modes from 5.2.10 and 5.2.11-pre1 to
>> the current source respectively.
>
> Hello Robert,
>
>> Gernot, I notice there are a lot of changes to the Canon output.  Is
>> there a general reason for this?  Are they simply bug fixes (the
>> printer was producing incorrect output to begin with)?
>
> I will look at this in the next day or to. If you let me know how you
> did the output, I'll do it again after I've finished editing the files
> I'm busy with (re-activating modes for now working runlength
> compression for 4-bit inksets: the modes were commented out in CVS
> since they did not work, 5.2.10 had them active---and since last week
> I got the encoding to work, so I need to bring these things back to
> life).

Changes committed, and testpattern run on all the printers using the
previously broken ink compression to ensure media and modes correctly
reinstated.
There are changes between 5.2.10 and 5.2.11 related to reinstating of
legacy modes for a few models, erroneously (perhaps, since uncertain
if they even work) removed in 5.2.7.

Regards,
Gernot Hassenpflug