[cups.general] [ANNOUNCE] Tea4CUPS v3.12 is out

[Jerome Alet]

Hi there,

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tea4CUPS v3.12

Tea4CUPS is a standalone Python script, distributed under the terms
of the GNU GPL, which acts as a completely generic CUPS backend wrapper.

It allows you to capture the print jobs at the moment they would be sent
to a real printer, and process them in any way you want with your own
commands, written in your language of choice. 

Tea4CUPS gives access to all the print job's characteristics through 
a bunch of environment variables, which can be read by your own 
scripts automatically launched by Tea4CUPS. 

With Tea4CUPS you will never have to write your own CUPS backend 
again : just concentrate on what you have to do, and let Tea4CUPS 
transparently handle the boring parts. 

For example you can create a (simple) print accounting solution in 
less than 10 minutes, or build a system which will automatically 
archive all print jobs in the PDF format, while still printing them 
as expected, in even less time. The sample configuration file
contain examples for both of these.

Summary of changes :

  * Access to the same printer devices by different print queues or 
    print servers is now serialized to avoid problems. 
  
  * Support for CUPS 1.2.x and higher was improved. 
  
  * The administrator can now stop tea4cups with SIGINT. 
  
  * A configurable retry directive in the configuration file gives you 
    more control over what to do when the real CUPS backend fails. 
  
  * The documentation and sample configuration file were improved. 
  
Download :  

  http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups/download/
  
Tea4CUPS is available as a tarball for a 25 Euros (or US$) fee, 
giving an unlimited access to all the restricted areas of 
http://www.pykota.com, in particular to both Tea4CUPS, PyKota and 
PyKotIcon Official releases. So for a very limited fee you've
got access to any new release of these 3 software.

Tea4CUPS is of course also available for no fee, but only through the
use of subversion (aka the 'svn' command).

Please send any comment, bug report, or flame to : alet at librelogiciel.com

Thank you for reading.

Jerome Alet