[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #2042: include Adobe driver for Windows 2000 and XP

Pete Boyd petes-bugs at thegoldenear.org
Thu Oct 19 05:03:32 PDT 2006


[STR New]

The cupsaddsmb man page (http://cups.org/doc-1.2/man-cupsaddsmb.html) says
"However, currently only Windows 2000 and higher is supported by the
Microsoft driver, so you will also need to get the Adobe driver to support
Windows 95, 98, and Me clients. The Adobe and Microsoft drivers for
Windows 2000 are identical."

The Microsoft driver is too difficult (for me) to find. Adobe have drivers
for both Windows 95/98/Me and Windows 2k/XP drivers in the form of the
'Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer'
(http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows)
- winsteng.exe. The cupsaddsmb man page says the 95/98/Me drivers are
available from Adobe, recomending people use the Microsoft ones for
2000/XP.
Please also say that there exists Adobe drivers for Windows 2000/XP and
preferably even recommend them rather than the Microsoft ones as they seem
simpler to find.

Adobe's description of the driver package is this: "The Adobe Universal
PostScript Windows Driver Installer installs the latest version of the
AdobePostScript (AdobePS) driver for each supported Microsoft Windows
platform:
- AdobePS 4.5.3: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or
Windows Millennium Edition
- AdobePS 5.2.2: Windows NT 4.0
- PScript 5: Windows 2000 or Windows XP "

Also, when the cupsaddsmb man page describes how to locate the Adobe
driver for Windows 95/98/Me, it says to go to http://www.adobe.com. The
link used above,
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows,
provides direct links to drivers for all supported operating systems in
all supported languages, so is a better place to link people to than
http://www.adobe.com.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2042
Version: Web Site





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