CUPS and Vista

[Helge Blischke]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know if/when an analogon to the CUPS6
>> driver stuff for XP/2000/2003 will be available for Vista?
> 
> 
> Unless somebody steps up to write it, not soon.  We're still working
> on 64-bit XP drivers... :(
> 
> That said, adding support for the existing Vista PostScript driver
> *should* be feasible in the near term - we just need to update the
> Samba export stuff accordingly.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of Vista loaded on any of my
> systems, so I don't have the resources to do this work myself.
> 
> I assume that the XP printer drivers are not compatible with Vista?
> 

.... at least the default Vista installation nowhere contains
the PSCRIPT... files so that even a set up with .INF files which
works for XP,2000,2003 fails on Vista. It seems Vista (as preinstalled
on newly bought PCs) only supports XPS, nothing of PostScript.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

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