Gimp-Print 4.3.0, released April 27, 2001, is a development release of this package. This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data. The Gimp Print plugin requires the Gimp 1.2. The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true CMYK. The Ghostscript driver requires Ghostscript 5.50, 6.51, or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52). The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or later or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later. Please read the README file for full instructions on building and installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.0 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.2.1: 1) A new dithering algorithm, EvenTone, is supported. EvenTone screening was invented by Raph Levien, and produces noticeably superior results particularly for continuous tone images such as photographs. EvenTone dithering produces a slight "waterfall" effect which may render it unsuitable for line art and graphics using extremely pale tones on some printers. 2) Significant reorganization of the internal interfaces between the family drivers, the dither code, and the weave code, to enable an arbitrary number of subchannels (rather than just 2 each of CMY and 1 K). 3) Reorganization of the build system to use automake 1.6 and autoconf 2.52. -- 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 Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
