Windows 2000 PostScript driver - where can I get it?

[Helge Blischke]

Andre Doeking wrote:
> 
> > Andre Doeking wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > In another thread I receive the following message (I asked something about the Cups Windows Treiber 5RC3:
> > >
> > > "This driver is no longer being maintained, and the bug is fixed in the Windows 2000 PostScript driver supported by CUPS 1.1.23."
> > >
> > > Actually we are using Cups 1.1.22 delivered with Fedora 3.
> > >
> > > It should not be the problem to install the newest version, but it seems that I don't correctly understand the usage of the Windows 2000 PostScript driver.
> > >
> > > The Windows 2000 PostScript driver is the same like the Cups-Driver 5rc3, isn't it? Else, where can I get the Windows 2000 PostScript driver? It is possible delivered with Cups 1.1.23 or can I receive it elsewhere from the internet.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your answers!
> > >
> >
> > If I remember correctly, the folks at easysw still are fighting some
> > quirks with that
> > software (putting the CUPS related extensions into it), but you may use
> > the original
> > driver supplied with the W2K system as it is.
> >
> > Helge
> >
> > PS: Be aware that that driver has serious issues with certain Type1
> > fonts (so called
> > Pi-fonts) the glyphs of which have names outside the WinAnsi range.
> >

> 
> Hello!
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> We are using Windows XP Professional on our nearly 200 clients. I hope that this os supply a original postscripter, too.
> 
> Where can I find the files for this original postscript driver on a Win2K or WinXP System?
> 
> Is it possible to handle these files like the Cups driver, which means, that I have to put these driver files into the print$ from samba?
> 

Yes, you can. Connect to the print$ share of a W2K or XP box by
	smbclient //smbnameofyourbox/print\$ -Uadministrator%admins_password
then go to the subdirectory
	\w32x86\3
and get the files
	ps5UI.dll
	pscript.hlp
	PSCRIPT.NTF
	PSCRIPT5.DLL
and use then cupsaddsmb as usual. If that fails, perform the operations
"by hand" as
described in the "official samba howto", chapter 19.

Helge

	
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Helge Blischke
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