Re: LPRng: foomatic + ifhp

[Till Kamppeter]

I think this is really a good idea, because now you have to decide (at 
least before CUPS 1.2 comes out), either support for bi-di features with 
ifhp or support for all printer models and driver options with Foomatic. 
I am wondering why nothing happened around the Foomatic/ifhp combo as 
Patrick Powell was the one bringing in this idea. Is there anyone more 
experienced with ifhp than me who want to do it? If something is there 
please send it to me (or post it on the foomatic-devel forum on 
linuxprinting.org) so that I can include it in the official Foomatic 
package (and the setup instructions as "LPRng Docs" on the web site. 
Please use Foomatic 3.0.x (http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic2.9/), 
as I will release 3.0.0 in two or three weeks and so Foomatic 2.0.x can 
be considered as obsolte. Another advantage of Foomatic 3.0.x is that it 
gives full support for manufacturer-supplied PostScript PPD files to all 
spoolers including LPRng 
(http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic2.9/ppd-doc.html).

   Till

Craig Small wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Luca Filipozzi wrote:

Whatever happened to the idea of using foomatic + ifhp together as
suggested in your email to this list?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lprng&m=100739756403529&w=2


If that happened that would be so amazingly fantastic.  LPRng is a good
program, lprngtool is *almost* there but having access to all the
foomatic preinter definitions would be icing on the cake.
Of course you can muck around with the printerdb in lprngtool but it 
misses the point.

  - Craig



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