This is the first release candidate of gimp-print 4.0.0. Please test it to ensure that there are no remnant problems. This is very close to the real 4.0. Gimp-Print 4.0.0 contains the following fixes over Gimp-Print 4.0b3: 1) All HP LaserJet printers except for the 4L are capable of 600 DPI resolution. 2) Any residual problems with the plugin printer list containing duplicates should now be fixed. 3) Any residual problems with scaling not being set properly in PPI mode should now be fixed. 4) An extraneous dependency on the glibc version of getopt() in escputil has been removed. 5) 'make clean' is now a bit more complete. 6) Certain Epson Stylus printers (the Stylus Pro XL, Stylus Color 400, 500, and 600, and Stylus Photo, Photo 700, and Photo EX) will not print quite as close to the bottom of the paper, due to some reports of overrunning pages. This is presumably due to paper size or printers not being perfectly in spec. Errata: 1) PostScript files (and PPD's) with embedded .setpagedevice commands to choose a media type will not function correctly. In place of MediaType, stpMediaType will allow a choice of media type. This will not be fixed in the release; it is not always possible to know what media types are valid at the time of the .setpagedevice call, which GhostScript requires. 2) The higher resolutions of the HP Deskjet 900/1220C and the HP PhotoSmart P1000/P1100 have been disabled as they do not work. Investigation into these modes (Photo-Ret III) is continuing. 3) There are some known color generation problems. In particular, greens (particularly weakly saturated greens) tend to be quite weak, giving grass a somewhat tan look. This may be improved somewhat by printing in 4-color rather than 6-color mode. We do not anticipate much if any further improvement in the release beyond the change in saturation noted above. The errors in color are not radical, but it may be hard to get a close match for extremely critical work. If the image is radically too light and washed out, please check the color settings, and try setting the defaults (1.0 for all options). 4) When using Epson 4x6 photo paper that is perforated to allow tearing off the unprintable margins it is possible to print part way into those margins. This will not be fixed in the release. 5) Red Hat 6.1 users cannot configure the plug-in. The problem is that neither the gimp nor the gimp-devel rpm's in that release include gimptool, which is necessary for configuration to work. This will not be fixed in the release. The recommended workaround is to recompile the Gimp from source (either 1.0.4 or the latest 1.1/1.2 release). That will install gimptool, and you will then be able to build the plug-in. This does not affect the Ghostscript driver.
