This is the first alpha release along the way to 4.0. It is not 4.0. Gimp-Print 4.0a1 contains the following improvements over Gimp-Print 3.1.9: 1) The Ghostscript driver has been extensively revised. IN PARTICULAR, THE OPTIONS HAVE CHANGED TO A DEGREE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY USES OF THE OLD DRIVER FROM WORKING WITH THE NEW ONE. Please read Ghost/README for a full explanation of the new options. 2) The Ghostscript driver now supports all printers supported by the Gimp plug-in, including PCL and Canon printers in addition to Epson Stylus inkjets. 3) Photo mode has had major improvements in its color generation in corner cases. It is slower than it used to be, unfortunately. 4) The inks have been retuned for 6-color Epson printers; they should now better match those of 4-color printers. 5) It is now possible to print to the very edge of the top, left, and right on Epson Stylus 870 and 1270 printers. 6) An experimental CUPS driver is now in place in the Cups subdirectory. It is not based on the current source base. It will be redone before 4.0 release. 7) Printing near the top and bottom of the paper is substantially improved on Epson Stylus printers. 8) Printing on PCL printers is fixed. 9) Epson Stylus printers have more flexible tuning than previously, allowing specification of smaller dot sizes in some cases, which will yield better output quality. 10) Ghostscript driver bug whereby only half the page was printed in certain resolutions is now fixed. 11) Adaptive hybrid dithering is now the default. ERRATA: 1) The PDQ and CUPS descriptor files are not updated for the latest change to the Ghostscript driver. 2) The Epson Stylus 850 apparently does not print to the very top of the page. 3) Not all printers have been fully calibrated, so color and density matching may be significantly off in some cases. Also, for some printers it may be possible to use smaller dot sizes than currently, which will produce higher quality output. 4) Photograph image type is known to work improperly with at least EGCS 1.1.2, due to problems with inlining in that compiler. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
