New in Apsfilter 7.2.8 (BUGFIX Release)
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3. New Features
- make it possible to use the lineprinter scheduler as jukebox
- network jukebox (untested)
should also work with a remote printer queue
So your remote server has a soundcard and your print clients
send audio files to the remote printer to play audio files
one after the other.
Hint:
For this purposes a new parameter from SETUP needed to be
saved into the apsfilterrc file (INTERFACES).
In every sound play routine in apsfilter
we test if this is a network printer.
Then we need to send the data stream (i.e. mp3) unprocessed.
On the print server with the soundcard the tanslation needs to
take place.
New in Apsfilter 7.2.7 (BUGFIX Release)
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7. BUG FIXES
- make spaces possible in samba printer name
from Roman Kurakin <rik at FreeBSD dot org>
This avoids the need for a confusing line of the form:
DEINSTALL_TEMPLATE+= path/to/INSTALL
in the package Makefile, and actually removes the need to specify it
altogether since by convention, the existence of the DEINSTALL script
is enough to add it to DEINSTALL_TEMPLATE.
INSTALL/DEINSTALL script creation within pkgsrc.
If an INSTALL or DEINSTALL script is found in the package directory,
it is automatically used as a template for the pkginstall-generated
scripts. If instead, they should be used simply as the full scripts,
then the package Makefile should set INSTALL_SRC or DEINSTALL_SRC
explicitly, e.g.:
INSTALL_SRC= ${PKGDIR}/INSTALL
DEINSTALL_SRC= # emtpy
As part of the restructuring of the pkginstall framework internals,
we now *always* generate temporary INSTALL or DEINSTALL scripts. By
comparing these temporary scripts with minimal INSTALL/DEINSTALL
scripts formed from only the base templates, we determine whether or
not the INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts are actually needed by the package
(see the generate-install-scripts target in bsd.pkginstall.mk).
In addition, more variables in the framework have been made private.
The *_EXTRA_TMPL variables have been renamed to *_TEMPLATE, which are
more sensible names given the very few exported variables in this
framework. The only public variables relating to the templates are:
INSTALL_SRC INSTALL_TEMPLATE
DEINSTALL_SRC DEINSTALL_TEMPLATE
HEADER_TEMPLATE
The packages in pkgsrc have been modified to reflect the changes in
the pkginstall framework.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
the appropriate tool via USE_TOOLS (usually "gs:run"), and remove
ghostscript.mk. This change removes a rather out-dated file from
pkgsrc and switches packages to use the more compact implementation
of the Ghostcript-handling inside the tools framework.
have it be automatically included by bsd.pkg.mk if USE_PKGINSTALL is set
to "YES". This enforces the requirement that bsd.pkg.install.mk be
included at the end of a package Makefile. Idea suggested by Julio M.
Merino Vidal <jmmv at menta.net>.
is, using the PKG_SYSCONFDIR stuff. apsfilter needs a symlink in the
configuration directory, so add an INSTALL script to create it (which
handles all DEINSTALL stuff too). Bump PKGREVISION to 2.
Approved by wiz.
This closes PR 18994.
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
NOTE: This works just fine with ghostscript-6.01 even though the
setup script says you need 6.50 or later...
- new driver scripts: ljet4l, pips/sc70s, pips/sc80s,
stp/pcl-2, stp/pcl-4
- 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
- MAPPING update
- change email address in various places
- 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
- 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.
- support for NetWare (Novell) remote printer
- save network traffic by supporting "remote copies"
via new REMOTE_COPIES variable. This tells lpd and Netware
print spooler to do copies themselves (enabled by default).
- install and test apsfilter as "non-root" user under $HOME !
This helps in testing new apsfilter versions, i.e. to prepare
a migration to a new version on a production system.
For this feature the configure script supports two new options:
--with-printcap=... and --with-spooldir=...
- use secure temporary directory in SETUP
- aps2file and apspreview now handle printer aliases
- remove bogus hpijs driver entries in setup/printer-7.00
(but they were correct in setup/printer-hpijs)
- only preview if aps2file generated PostScript
- driver: stp/escp2-1160 (thanks to <andrew@ugh.net.au>)
- various fixes in driver/MAPPING
- adjusted various omni/ scripts to use more reasonable
resolution settings
- enable PSgs to honor HARDWARE_COPIES
- the bjc600 driver script has four new siblings (bjc50, bjc70,
bjc4000, bjc7000) to properly handle printers with different
print resolutions
- various small SETUP clean-ups
- create "basedir" link at install time already
- doc/Makefile: "make clean" should remove handbook.html
since "configure" re-creates it from handbook.html.in
- Make handbook generation smarter, cosmetic.
* a new apspreview script, that allows you to preview your print session
using gv, kghostview or ghostview
* a new apsfilter-bug script that assists you in releasing bug reports
* some handbook and manpage updates / fixes
* new drivers
* driver fixes
http://www.apsfilter.org/download/ChangeLog-7.1.1
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
apsfilter is a magic printfilter, that allows you to print different document
types "automagically" without having to convert them manually into something
which is understood by your lineprinter. Apsfilter supports the following
file and compression types: gzip, bzip, compress, freeze, pack, ASCII, BMP,
Data (data,PCL,...), English, TeX DVI, FIG, GIF, Group 3 Fax, HTML, JPEG,
Mail/News, PBM/PNM/PPM, PC Bitmap Data, PDF, Postscript(tm), raw, script
(shell,..), Text, sunraster, tiff, roff (nroff, groff, troff).
