NEWS in the distfile.
* CHANGES FROM GUTENPRINT 5.2.0-BETA2:
4) Printing speed, and possibly quality, have been improved in
certain cases on newer Epson inkjet printers (C120, Stylus Photo
2400, RX700, and all printers using Claria ink). The speed
improvement should be most noticeable with plain paper at lower
resolutions. Quality improvements may or may not be noticeable.
5) The Epson driver is in the process of being converted to use data
stored in files external to the binary library. While this
should have no impact on end-user use, it is a substantial change
that people should be aware of. Please report any issues.
6) Test coverage has been significantly increased.
7) New printers supported in this release:
(450+ lines of printers omitted)
* GENERAL CHANGES FROM GUTENPRINT 5.0:
1) Gutenprint 5.2 and beyond no longer support GIMP 1.2. Please
ensure that you are using GIMP 2.0 or above.
2) The PostScript driver has been rewritten, offering enhanced
functionality approaching that of the native printer drivers.
This driver is used by the enhanced Print plugin for the GIMP,
and by other packages (such as PhotoPrint) that utilize
Gutenprint. In particular, the following specific functionality
has been added:
- All PPD file options are now offered.
- CMYK input is now handled correctly.
- The PostScript driver recognizes Gutenprint PPD files (from
the native CUPS driver, not from Foomatic) and presents
floating point options correctly.
Note that this driver does not offer the curve options offered
by the native drivers.
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* CHANGES FROM GUTENPRINT 5.0.2 AND 5.1.7:
1) cups-genppdupdate is no longer versioned, as it was in 5.0 and
5.1 (cups-genppdupdate.5.0 and cups-genppdupdate.5.1). It also
supports the following options:
-r Specify the major.minor version to update to, e. g. 5.0 or
5.1.
-f Bypass ownership/permissions checks on update PPD files.
-i Interactively ask whether to update each PPD file.
2) The performance of cups-genppdupdate has been improved
significantly.
3) cups-genppdupdate no longer updates PPD files that differ only
in case of the file extension (e. g. printer.ppd and
printer.PPD). This avoids updating PPD files twice on
filesystems that are case insensitive, such as OS X.
4) cups-genppdconfig has been removed from this release. This
command was used to configure CUPS printer queues, but is not
necessary as there are ample other tools available to configure
printer queues.
8) L-size photo paper (3 1/2x5 inches) has been added.
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