Gimp-Print 4.3.1, released June 28, 2002, 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 4.3.1 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.0: 1) A crash that happened in stp_vasprintf on many systems has been fixed. 2) A crash in the IJS driver when printing extremely large images, such as banners on a wide format printer at high resolution, has been fixed. 3) A portability issue in gimpprint-config has been fixed. 4) An installation problem with the CUPS PPD files on systems lacking an appropriate install script has been fixed. 5) Partial translations for German, Spanish, and Portuguese have been added. 6) The option to *not* build the Gimp-Print library (libgimpprint) has been removed. 7) The escputil alignment command has been improved. 8) Preliminary support for the Epson Stylus Photo 950 and 2100/2200, and the Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600. The Stylus Photo 950 has been verified and partially tuned. The other printers are untested and may or may work. 9) Quality improvements to the Even Tone dither algorithm. 10) The printer data in the Epson driver has been substantially reorganized. This allows the driver to support the new UltraChrome inks (for the Stylus Photo 2100/2200 and Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600). This will also permit the driver to support quadtone or hextone grayscale inks, although that capability is not enabled at present. 11) The testpattern generator has some improvements, including the ability to print 16-bit images. The image format is not documented, as this is likely to change, but people may wish to study the code and experiment with it. -- 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
