Hi All, Going back to the foomatic+ifhp subject that was posted to the list back in March.
Looking at the e-mail sent by Patrick Powell to the list, it would seem that something was started in the ifhp back in 2001, but sadly nothing materialised. The ability to use PPD files with IFHP would be, as stated in the e-mails below, a very very useful feature and may alleviate some of the problems in maintaining the ifhp.conf file. We also wouldn't loose the most useful features of IFHP, i.e. bi-di. So, if anyone (probably Patrick Powell) has a copy of the code that was made, I'd love to have a copy to see if can finish it off. With the growing number of printers and types here, it might be worth the time and effort. If no starting point is available, then I'll probably have a go at producing a complete patch myself. cheers, sam On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:55, Till Kamppeter wrote: > 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 > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CERN, Geneva IT - Product Support - Unix Infrastructure E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
