[cups.general] new feature: provide a link to let Windows userdownload PPD files?

[Michael Sweet]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. We run cups on a department centralized print room, everyone in
> the company who run Windows desktop (90% of them) need to read the "add
> printer Instruction" written by me on a webpage in order to add IPP
> printer.

Best to post your feature requests to the bug page:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

> ...
> the way I offer PPD file is very simple: I simply set up a web server
> which take /etc/cups/ppd as DocumentRoot and enable Index feature of
> webserver.

Not necessary, just add ".ppd" to the end of the printer URI
(http://servername:631/printers/printername.ppd) to get the PPD
file.

Longer term we want to support either Microsoft's (undocumented) IPP
extension operation and/or provide a Java class that runs (via a
browser link) to add a local printer, just as our current Windows
client software (http://www.easysw.com/printpro/software.php) does.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com