This is the Print plugin for the Gimp, version 4.0a2. This is the second pre-release of the 4.0 stable release. It is not 4.0. This software also comes with a GhostScript driver. The support for printers in the GhostScript driver is identical to the support for these printers in the Print plugin -- they use the identical code base. Please read Ghost/README for more information on this. This plugin can be compiled against either Gimp 1.1 or 1.0. Gimp-Print 4.0a2 contains the following improvements over Gimp-Print 4.0a1: 1) A serious bug in the handling of landscape mode (in the plugin only) has been fixed. 2) A new 360 dpi softweave mode has been added to the Epson driver for the variable drop size printers, which should yield improved quality. It is reasonably well tuned on the 870. 3) Improved tonal smoothness in highly saturated red, green, and blue. 4) The Ghostscript driver produces more useful error messages if incorrect parameters are supplied. 5) The top margin of the Epson Stylus Color 850 should be correct now. The printer is not capable of printing to the top of the page. 6) Ink levels have been fine tuned (not necessarily correctly) for newer Epson printers. 7) Work around some inlining problems with egcs 1.1.2. ERRATA: 1) The PDQ and CUPS descriptor files are still not fixed. 2) While calibration should still be improved, there is doubtless much to go. 3) There have been sporadic reports of blank splotches or regions, apparently at the very darkest intensity. This is not yet fully characterized. -- 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
