CUPS Driver Development Kit 1.0.1

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Jun 23 11:15:29 PDT 2005


Version 1.0.1 of the Common UNIX Printing System Driver
Development Kit is now available for download from the CUPS web
site at:

    http://www.cups.org/ddk/software.php

The new release fixes some problems in the ppdc and ppdi
utilities and supports MacOS X 10.4. It also adds man pages for
the raster filters.

The CUPS Driver Development Kit (DDK) provides a suite of
standard drivers, a PPD file compiler, and other utilities that
can be used to develop printer drivers for CUPS and other
printing environments.  CUPS provides a portable printing layer
for UNIX(r)-based operating systems.  The CUPS DDK provides the
means for mass-producing PPD files and drivers/filters for
CUPS-based printer drivers.

The CUPS DDK is licensed under the GNU General Public License. 
Please contact Easy Software Products for commercial support and
"binary distribution" rights.

Changes in v1.0.1:

	- The ppdc utility did not return a non-zero exit code
	  when it was unable to load a message catalog.
	- The ppdc utility now looks for and uses existing
	  ModelName, NickName, ShortNickName, LanguageEncoding,
	  and LanguageVersion attributes; if missing, the
	  previous auto-generated values are used (STR #709)
	- The ppdi utility could add extra "*" characters to the
	  beginning of main keywords in UIConstraints depending
	  on the version of CUPS that was used (STR #703)
	- Added man pages for the rastertoescpx and rastertopclx
	  filters (STR #626)
	- The ppdi utility crashed when importing a PPD file
	  without Manufacturer, ModelName, PCFileName, or
	  FileVersion attributes (STR #883)
	- The configure script did not use the cups-config
	  reported compiler options when testing for the presence
	  of the cups/cups.h include file (STR #748)
	- Fixed MacOS X 10.4 compilation problems.
	- Fixed the comments in the included localization files.
	- Fixed the R300 tutorial.
	- Some attribute values were incorrectly quoted (STR
	  #706)
	- UIConstraints were incorrectly quoted (STR #705)
	- The attribute strings containing quotes were not
	  quoted properly when saved in the driver information
	  file; this was most visible in the ppdi utility (STR
	  #702)





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