- please upgrade
- updated pkg-plist to match reality
- tested packaging
Changes:
- replace awk "duplex" function with psset call
- adjust psnup rotation to various converters
for landscape mode
- add landscape option to enscript command line
- introduce IGNORE_LPD_RAW variable to please buggy
spoolers that send jobs in raw mode
- sanitize ": ${foo:-bar}" to ": ${foo:=bar}"
- make n{c}print line whitespace-safe
- save return code in global temporary file
- typo in wmf2eps line
- make apspreview use global "restrictions" file
- get basedir in SETUP from configure
- protect $foo[bar] contructs from being expanded
to array elements by zsh
- add "-dPARANOIDSAFER" for gs7.04 (harmless for all
older releases)
- save "rm" and "rp" in SETUP.cfg
- add some hints w.r.t landscape and n-up in handbook
- remove media types in scripts for some PCL printers
- be more helpful with "invalid method"
- LaserJet 4L needs fixed 300dpi
- LN macro in Makefile needs -n switch -- we must
create a directory link even if one exists already
- add .PHONY targets in Makefiles
- MAPPING update
- change email address in various places
new driver scripts:
- ljet4l, pips/sc70s, pips/sc80s, stp/pcl-2, stp/pcl-4
Important fixes for FreeBSD
Patches from files subdir went into this new release
General fixes:
- remove apsfilter installation error when typing "make install"
by using ln's -f (force) option to overwrite an existing symlink
(just in case you overwrite another installation).
- fix some HP driver mapping in MAPPING file
FreeBSD specific fixes:
- make apspreview work again for FreeBSD (and possibly *BSD).
BSD uses a sed implementation, that uses only "normal" regular
expressions for backward compatibility not to break existing scripts.
Linux (GNU sed) uses "modern REs". We use now awk which turns out
to be more portable between different Unix flavours.
We use awk instead of sed in other scripts as well (SETUP,
aps2file).
- import a patch from FreeBSD ports collection necessary for
FreeBSD-current to use "user:group" syntax for chown. Old
style "user.group" to change owner && group isn't supported
anymore. Linux's implementation of chown (from GNU) groks
new syntax.
Please note: hpijs 1.0 driver core dumps have been fixed by me some
hours ago with the kind help of HP. So you can now savely
use the new HPIJS driver with gs and apsfilter. Have fun.
- update to new version 7.2.0
- update pkg-plist (4 new bjc driver scripts, apsfilter4.png)
- update SETUP patch for FreeBSD-current (chown xxx:yyy syntax, which
is currently not included in apsfilter, am unsure, if all Linux and
Solaris support this, can somebody please clarify ? Thanks)
Highlights of the new apsfilter version (new features):
- printing to Novell remote printer supported, now apsfilter supports
all important types of remote printer (Novell, Unix/lpd, Microsoft,
AppleTalk)
- save network traffic by telling remote lpd and Netware printer scheduler,
to manage copies of a print jobs themselves, this saves you sending
a print job n times over the network (when printing with:
"lpr -C copies=20 large_file.ps"
- Testinstallations of apsfilter under $HOME for testing/migration
planning supported. Test then using aps2file ...
This works for non-root user. configure knows 2 new options for
that purpose, to customize printcap and spooldir location under
$HOME, /tmp or whereever, you get the idea
FIXES:
- BJC script fixes, never ending story, 4 new subtypes of printers
with different print capabilities.
- Security: SETUP uses secure tmpdir
- you can rename printer now or add printer aliases now
aps2file and apspreview understand now to handle aliases (this was
tricky/expensive but doable)
- different fixes see ANNOUNCE / ChangeLog file
The interactive script will be updated later.
Don't bump port revision, since next following commit
will contain new apsfilter release, that is now in the
queue, before I finished polishing interactive installartion.
But I didn't want to mix this change and the new apsfilter
version in one commit.
Since the `.' seperator has been deprecated for a while now,
the chown command fails - at least under -current.
Changed his patch to patch actually SETUP.in and not the
resulting file SETUP after running configure.
Submitted by: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>
Bugfix release and new cool features
New: apspreview script and manpage -> allows you to preview your print
session using gv, kghostview or ghostview (in that order).
If the result fits your needs you can of course directly print
from within these viewers using lpr -C and using apsfilter options
New: "apsfilter-bug" utility which supports you to release a helpful
bug- or problem report for us developers. Its the first release
and certainly will get useful updates in the future.
Detects automatically the apsfilter version you use (-current or
-stable) and sends mail to proper mailinglist apsfilter-current
or apsfilter-stable mailinglist.
New: handbook and manpage updates / cleanups.
More guidance how to release a bug report using apsfilter-bug(1)
apsfilter manpage documents now all print options (-C/-Z option)
supported by apsfilter
Fixes (Prio)
- (HIGH) unbreak hardware duplex printing for all true Postscript printer
- (MEDIUM) pcl3/u970 driver fix for (hardware) duplex printing.
Comment: not tested due to hardware fault of our duplex device.
Would appreciate some feedback. pcl3 driver is very picky about
combination of gs driver options. The options currently in use
have been selected from pcl3 handbook to our best knowledge.
- (HIGH) New ljet4 driver for LaserJet4 style lasers. Previously it used
the cdeskjet driver, which was wrong.
- (HIGH) a2ps sometimes delegates print jobs to other applications even
if user wanted to force ASCII printing (using lpr -C ascii).
This breaks for example printing of Latex Sources.
a2ps will now be executed with "--delegate=no". Fixed !
I encourage everybody to use this new version.
Later version perhaps will get some more generic printer_add/mod/del
commands as prerequisite for perhaps other graphical admin tools.
For that we could need some help from webmin, TCL/TK or gtk GUI
wizards ... Thats usually not my business ;-)
- new design: use GNU configure alike script (without the bloat) for
creating different files (scripts, manpages, handbook, Makefile).
now paths are 100% matching.
- create portable Makefile across various platforms
- manpage update, supported file types, commandline options (lpr -C/-Z),
docu fixes
- some fixes in driver (hl1250, bjc600/800)
BTW: Need assistance for duplex options for pcl3 u970 driver
(HP DeskJet 970C). My duplex hardware is toast. If you set
HARDWARE_DUPLEX in apsfilterrc, then you are able to use duplex
capabilities. pcl driver explains what magic options have to be set,
but I think it doesn't work ... If somebody has the hardware/time ...
Current settings are done from documentation to my best knowledge.
and stdout.
Therefore we have to use bash as shell for /usr/local/bin/aps2file
program.
Arrange things with patch and pre-configure command, so that this
port stays prefix-clean.
The patch inserts !!PREFIX!!/bin/bash and configure configures in
the current PREFIX settings.
I'd whish somebody could fix our shell to remove the dependency from bash.
- patch-SETUP is included in 7.0.1 (we don't provide insane defaults anymore)
- support for HPIJS V 1.0 ("IJS" driver)
- still supporting old HPIJS driver ("HPIJS" driver)
- some more sanity checks in SETUP (check is print device is character special)
- added bjc800 driver script, since it differs to bjc600 printer
- format of MAPFILE documented
- handbook has been updated
- compatible to 7.0.0 version, so old entries and spooldirs should work
after upgrade has been made
see ANNOUNCE and ChangeLog for a complete list:
- supports fully ghostscript7
- enhanced driver support, hpijs, pips, latest gimp-print, etc ...
- per driver scripts, where printer manufacturer *could* place
their driver/scripts, the case structure wasn't scaleable anymore
an led to incomplete support or to large apsfilter script
- unified command-line options, see handbook
- support for HARDWARE_COPIES if your printer can print multiple copies
himself
- option settings can be restricted by the administrator for all printer
or print queues (maybe to save print costs on color printers ...)
- support for many new filetypes
- print contens of archives: tar, cpio, ar, zip, zoo ...
- security: update for duplex print keys
- separate faq has gone, everything is in the handbook
- error messages can be sent to user now via Cc:
- no bugs so far ;-)
- place apsfilter distfiles into subdir apsfilter, since name of patchfile
doesn't contain string apsfilter. On my TODO list for future.
- update prio for apsfilter user: low (hint: try/test apsfilter-current
from http://www.apsfilter.org if you are looking for more printer
support and other goodies)
- a duplex printing password fix turned out incompatibility of
BSD od(1) to other flavours of od(1).
- apsfilter 6.1.1 contains the duplex password fix
+ a substitution of od(1) with hexdump which also seems to be
available on Linux and Solaris.
- no PORTREVISION dump since we have a new release
- added pkg-message file for easier handling and addition of
notification to apsfilter *package*
had to change configure script and Makefile to follow that new
infrastructure.
- troff notification in dependency to FreeBSD version
all from -current has been merged after a long testing period.
See the ANNOUNCE file for the long list of bugfixes, security,
feature and code enhancements.
I hope, this time apsfilter port will fit on CD 1, so
people can install apsfilter during initial FreeBSD
installation.
- default in BATCH mode is now, NOT to have X11 based utilities in
port dependencies, I think this makes apsfilter better in
- running on small printservers that don't have X11 installed
- making apsfilter package more "sexy" for being placed onto the 1st
FreeBSD installation CD-ROM, since now it consumes less space !!!
- make apsfilter use the same make environment variable NO_X like
in ghostscript6 port
- this enables you to build and run apsfilter even on a small printserver,
that doesn't have X installed
- NO_X is even usefull when having APSFILTER_ALL set, since then it installs
all available/supported filter utilities, that don't require X11
- the last one needs some more fine tuning, currently I left it empty,
have to think about, whats a possible replacement that don't need X11...
- add patchsite and patchfile
- fix1: correct apsfilter version string that is echo'd in logfile
when script debugging is turned on
- fix2: samba remote printing bug fixed. The exported variable
containing the windows password was spelled incorrectly.
samba 2.0.7 uses PASSWD not PASSWORD.
Hint: People who don't want to reinstall apsfilter can fix that easily
by substituting PASSWORD with PASSWD
- for runtime
in $PREFIX/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter
- for SETUP (test printing functionality)
in $PREFIX/share/apsfilter/SETUP
therefore they were also missing in package (-> PORTREVISION bump)
- portlint complained about descr. line being too long, trimmed it down
to below 70 chars.
PR: 23973
Submitted by: David W. Chapman Jr. <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
hint: no need to update folks, sorry, make-release still doesn't work right
and updates still apsfilter-stable if I want to roll a new -current snapshot.
I will fix it in the future but currently I don't have time.
last recent changes:
Mo 14 Aug 2000 07:05:28 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* SETUP: use "-" instead of "-_", as reported from
Hal Bower. To make print_testpage work on every gs version.
For printing the test page this is enough.
* info file fix: use new domain "apsfilter.org"
* refresh info concerning mailing-lists, the following are
available now:
- apsfilter-announce Announcements
- apsfilter-chat talk/chat around apsfilter and printing
- apsfilter-current developer version of apsfilter
- apsfilter-cvs Commit Messages of Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-devel Closed List for Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-hackers Technical Discussion, code submissions
- apsfilter-help User Support / Help Forum
- apsfilter-printing Printing under Unix environment
- apsfilter-stable apsfilter stable release (5.x)
Add patch 5.4.2 to RELENG_5
Things that makes me wonder:
a) patch is unable to remove make-release, that vanished in RELENG_5
so I had to remove the diff for that. Don't know if our patch is
so dumb, or if cvs diff doesn't generate the right things.
The complete diff concerning this is rejected.
b) the CONFIGURE TARGET OF OUR PORTS COLLECTION STILL doesn't work.
Could someone please tell me, if I missed something ???
Suddenly the apsfilter configure script isn't executed anymore
and so the apsfilter port doesn't create Makefile.inc to resolve
the port dependencies, when being called "interactively"...
completely to www.apsfilter.org
Many thanks to the FreeBSD developer team, Jordan, WC,
who made distribution of apsfilter possible for years.
Changes:
- checksums changed
- Redesign concerning patches to save CVS repository space
remove patches in patches directory completely !
- use PATCHFILES in Makefile instead, which are actually
smaller changes !
