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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