This is gimp-print version 4.1.10, a development release on the 4.1 line. This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers. The support for printers in GhostScript and CUPS is identical to the support for these printers in the Print plugin -- they use the identical code base. Please read src/ghost/README and src/cups/README for more information on this. Note that the 4.1.8 and 4.1.9 releases were abandoned due to a critical bug that prevented printing at all under many circumstances. That bug is now believed to be completely fixed. Gimp-Print 4.1.10 contains the following changes over 4.1.7: 1) The way to print black and white only images has changed. In the Gimp plugin, the option has been moved from the Image Type group of buttons to the Output Type group. In the Ghostscript driver, it has been moved from -dImageType=3 to -dColor=2. It has been removed, at least temporarily, from the CUPS driver. It is likely that there will be further changes related to all of this before 4.2. 2) A bug introduced in 4.1.7 that caused roll feed printing to fail on Epson Stylus printers (such as the Stylus Photo 870) is fixed. The symptoms are typically that the ready light on the printer flashes as data is sent, but nothing is printed. 3) Initial support for the Epson Stylus Pro printers: 5000, 5500, 7000, 7500, 9000, 9500. It is not yet tested and tuned. There is also currently no support for the paper cutter. 4) Explicit support for various types of roll paper supported by Epson printers. This enables Gimp users to specify the height of the page with a fixed width. 5) A bug that in some cases prevented certain options from being selected (and may have resulted in crashes) in the GIMP plugin has been fixed. 6) Color quality on Epson printers (particularly in the blue range) is improved. 7) Tuned Epson Premium Quality Photo Paper for new (870/1270 and successors) Epson Stylus Photo printers. This paper was specifically designed for these printers, and may not give optimal results with older printers. 8) Partial color tuning for some papers on Epson printers. In particular, matte and plain paper should now produce more accurate grays with default settings. 9) Very dark tones and very saturated colors should be improved somewhat. The result may be a bit darker and more contrasty; this will need some experimentation. 10) The Gimp plugin should now build on systems not using GNU make. 11) The Gimp plugin now permits the user to define a new printer name. This allows the user to define multiple "printers" with different settings. A newly-defined printer will clone the settings in effect at the time the new printer is defined. 12) The Gimp plugin now grays out settings that have no effect. Specifically, the custom page size boxes are grayed out unless a paper size allowing custom sizing is in use, and the color control sliders (cyan, magenta, yellow, and saturation) are grayed out when grayscale or black and white output is selected. 13) The Gimp plugin now offers an extra option for positioning the image in the preview window. The middle button moves the image in increments of the image size. This can be useful in some cases when printing the same image multiple times on one page. Furthermore, if you move the image with any mouse button, and while the mouse button is held down you press another button, the entire move operation is aborted; the image is returned to its previous position, and does not respond to the mouse until you release all buttons. 14) The Gimp plugin will no longer compile against any version of 1.1. It no longer uses the transitional "compatibility" API; rather, it uses the 1.2 API. 15) There has been a significant reorganization of the dither code. While this has been tested, it is quite possible that there are cases where the code has regressed. Typical symptoms would be no output, grossly wrong output (likely with vertical bands or streaks), or crashes. Please report any problems you may find. 16) The package as a whole is compiled with more warnings enabled (when gcc is used). While most of the warnings have been cleaned up, some of them cannot easily be removed (they're due to issues with external header files or other tools, for example). 17) The package will use about 1/3 as much virtual address space when printing very large images. Gimp-Print 4.1.10 has the following known issues: 1) The Canon driver currently produces incorrect or no output on many printers at many resolutions. This has been the case since roughly 4.1.5. We are aware of this issue, and will fix it as soon as possible. -- Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
