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Thanks regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann + development for color management + imaging / panoramas + email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.behrmann.name Am 01.09.05, 21:56 -0400 schrieb Robert L Krawitz: > Welcome to Gutenprint 5.0.0-rc1! Please read these release notes > carefully. > > Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers > that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, > including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high > quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2, 10.3, and > 10.4) and Linux systems that in many cases equal or exceed proprietary > vendor-supplied drivers in quality and functionality, and can be used > for demanding printing tasks requiring flexibility and high quality. > This software package includes the Print plug-in for the GIMP and > Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, as well as Foomatic data. > > The package has been renamed in order to clearly distinguish it from > the GIMP. While this package started out as the Print plugin for the > GIMP, it has expanded into a collection of general purpose printer > drivers, and the Print plugin for the GIMP is now only a small (but > important) piece of the package. Furthermore, the name Gutenprint > recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type > printing press. Finally, the word "guten" means "good" in German. > > Gutenprint 5.0.0-rc1 is the first release candidate of Gutenprint 5.0. > It is based on the Gimp-Print 4.3 series that has been in development > for over three years, and includes many improvements over the very > popular 4.2 series. This release is believed to be quite stable, but > further testing is required before final release. We believe this > release to be stable enough for day to day use, and encourage people > to test it and report their results. > > Gutenprint currently contains over 200 drivers supporting in excess of > 600 printer models. > > The Print plug-in for the GIMP requires the GIMP 1.2.3 or above on the > 1.2 line (1.2.5 is recommended), or the GIMP 2.0 or above. You may > need to install packages named "gimp-devel", "gtk-devel", and > "glib-devel" (or similar equivalents) on many systems. This plug-in > will work with any printing system, and offers a comprehensive user > interface to control all aspects of the printing process. > > The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. You may need to > install a package named "cups-devel" or similar on many systems. > Please the rest of the release notes, in particular the Exceptions and > Workarounds, for full details on installation, as there is an > important caveat. CUPS is the printing system used on Macintosh OS X > 10.2 and above, and many other systems use it. The combination of > CUPS and Gutenprint provides a flexible, general purpose printing > system capable of producing the highest quality output with any of the > printers supported by this package. We strongly recommend using CUPS > with Gutenprint as a general-purpose printing solution. > > The Ghostscript driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or higher, ESP > Ghostscript 7.05 or higher, or AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 or higher. It > uses the IJS package included with these versions of Ghostscript to > create a driver that may be built much more easily than traditional > Ghostscript drivers. The options for this driver are very complex, > and it is normally used with the Foomatic driver integration system. > > Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), 10.3 (Panther), and 10.4 > (Tiger) can use this package, as the printing system is based on CUPS. > For ease of installation, a pre-built package with installer is > normally supplied a few days after the release of the source package. > We highly recommend that OS X users use the pre-built package rather > than attempt to build it themselves. > > NOTE: This package will not work with any version of OS X 10.0 and > 10.1 (such as 10.1.5), as those systems do not use CUPS as their > printing system. This is NOT going to be fixed; you must upgrade to > at least OS X 10.2 in order to use this package. The reason why is > that OS X 10.2 and above use CUPS as the basis of the printing system. > OS X 10.0 and 10.1 use a different system that would require a > separate driver, and we do not plan to write that driver. > > The README file included with this package provides full instructions > on building and installing Gutenprint. > > * Major changes between Gutenprint 5.0.0 beta 4 and Gutenprint 5.0.0 > release candidate 1: > > 1) Color correction is greatly improved, particularly for Epson > printers. The following general and specific improvements have > been made: > > * The default gamma for all Epson printers has been increased to > resolve long-standing issues with overly dark prints. The user > gamma adjustment is specified as a correction, so the default > value of 1.0 will yield correct results. > > * Luminosity (darkness) correction has been simplified and > improved by performing correction only on the color component, > without adjusting the gray component. This improves dark cyans > and greens in particular, and generally yields smoother tonal > changes. > > * Red and blue generation for the Epson Stylus R800 and R1800 > (and for any future printers) has been completely revamped. It > is now done by using per-channel curves. This improves control > over the output and allows ink combinations that could not be > generated with the previous code. The most notable effect is > improved magenta. > > * Greens have been improved on all Epson printers and are now > considerably more saturated and less yellow. > > * Black generation has been improved on all printers, > particularly Epson printers using Ultrachrome (R) inks. > > * Photo (light cyan and light magenta) ink generation has been > improved on many Epson printers. > > * Composite gray generation is now done by adding in CMY inks > rather than subtracting out the gray component. This separates > the gray balance from the per-channel ink density, permitting > much better color saturation for certain printers with > unbalanced inks. In particular, the Epson R-series printers > can now generate much better orange, yellow, and green without > sacrificing neutrality of grayscale. > > * The operation of the Bright Colors color correction mode has > been changed, and is now much closer to the operation of High > Accuracy. The main difference is that highly saturated colors > now clip rather than taper off toward full saturation. This > will yield improved color brilliance with some loss of detail > in certain cases (particularly bright greens). > > * A new Correct Hue Only mode has been added that corrects ink > hue without adjusting darkness. This permits achieving greater > color saturation without losing hue accuracy, although many > colors will be too dark in this mode. > > 2) PrintoutMode has been fixed in the Foomatic data generator so > that it now generates correct options in all cases. > > 3) CUPS PPD files are now built with translations enabled. If you > do not want translated PPD files, configure the package with > > ./configure --disable-translated-cups-ppds > > 4) The Canon SELPHY CP-600 dye sublimation printer has been added. > > 5) Preliminary support for the Canon Pixma i4000 printer has been > added. The Canon BubbleJet and Pixma driver is likely to undergo > considerable revision and may not be fully stabilized at release. > > 6) The Epson Stylus C82, C84, and C86 now use black ink with glossy > paper. The ink in these printers has been reformulated and is > now compatible with glossy paper. > > 7) The Epson Stylus CX3650 now prints correctly (previously there > were minor vertical offset problems, yielding slightly blurry > prints). > > 8) The Ghostscript driver (ijsgutenprint) now generates correct > output (previously it generated output that was much too dark > unless the gamma setting was enabled explicitly). > > 9) New printing resolutions have been added for certain Epson > printers: > > * 720 DPI high quality has been added for all but the very oldest > Epson printers, and 1440x720 DPI highest quality has been added > for all Epson printers with an upper resolution limit of > 2880x720 DPI. We have received reports that 1440x720 highest > quality, which was present in Gimp-Print 4.2, often produces > better output than 2880x720 while requiring less computation. > > * 2880x2880 DPI resolution has been added for the Epson Stylus > C86 and similar printers, such as the CX6600. While this is > not likely to yield a great improvement over 2880x1440 DPI, > this may yield some improvement for certain kinds of line art > with very fine detail. In general, there is little advantage > to be had from any resolution above 1440x1440 DPI with this > printer. > > * 5760x2880 DPI has been added for the Epson Stylus Photo R800 > and R1800. Tests indicate that this resolution does offer a > small degree of improvement over 2880x2880; the most noticeable > improvement is smoother tonality. This enhancement may be > desirable for particularly critical printing. > > 10) The Epson Stylus RX425 is now explicitly supported. > > 11) Some problems with PPD file generation using cups-genppdconfig > have been fixed. In particular, PPD permission and ownership > checks have been relaxed to permit operation on more systems. > > 12) A problem that could on rare occasions cause blank areas on photo > printers has been fixed. The problem was more likely to be > observed when printing in 16-bit mode. > > 13) Debian packaging has been removed from this release. Debian > packaging will be handled by the maintainer outside of the > release. > > 14) On systems supporting shared library versioning, the shared > library is labeled with the correct release version rather than a > development version. > > 15) It is now possible to specify variable drop sizes with > predithered mode. Values of 0, 1, 2, or 3 will cause the > appropriate drop size to be printed. Previously only the > smallest or largest drop size could be printed with this dither > mode. > > 16) Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) translation has been added. > > 17) A problem whereby attempting to use certain paper types with > certain Epson printers would cause a failure is fixed. > > 18) A problem whereby the image height and width were not properly > preserved across uses of the GIMP plugin is fixed. > > 19) In the Foomatic data the options "STP_InputSlot" and > "STP_MediaType" were renamed to "InputSlot" and "MediaType". This > way the names are Adobe-compliant and so PPD-aware applications > understand for what they are used for and treat them > appropriately (for example appear on first page of printer > options dialog of kprinter and XPP). > > -- > Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 > Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net > > "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." > --Eric Crampton > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer