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author | Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> | 2016-02-16 15:15:42 +0100 |
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committer | Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> | 2016-02-16 15:15:42 +0100 |
commit | a313257bdec71bc92a56598e74d9097c16cb6e48 (patch) | |
tree | bce77ca349366ab4c81d847e710693fb50d55620 /README | |
parent | 82a5e2a21f1cc4ea142514a1a045a63158f10256 (diff) |
Imported Upstream version 5.2.11
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.11-pre2! Please read these notes carefully. +Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.11! Please read these notes carefully. *** NOTE TO PACKAGERS: Please read the file README.package for issues that are of interest to distributors and packagers of Gutenprint. @@ -8,26 +8,33 @@ Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.11-pre2! Please read these notes carefully. I) INTRODUCTION - This is Gutenprint version 5.2.11-pre2, an unstable release of Gutenprint + Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with + most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, + LPRng, or others. Gutenprint currently supports over 2500 printer + models. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX, + Linux, and Macintosh OS X (10.6 and above) systems. Gutenprint + includes CUPS and Foomatic drivers, and an enhanced Print plug-in + for GIMP that replaces the print plug-in packaged with the GIMP + distribution. + + This is Gutenprint version 5.2.11, a stable release of Gutenprint 5.2. Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling - systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers - provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X - 10.6 and newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better - than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers. Gutenprint also + systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. Gutenprint also includes an enhanced print plug-in for the GIMP image editor, replacing the Gimp-Print 4.2-based plugin supplied with GIMP 1.2, 2.0, and 2.2, and offering an alternative with additional capabilities to the GtkPrint-based plugin supplied with GIMP 2.4 and beyond. - Gutenprint has been renamed in order to clearly distinguish it - from GIMP. While this package started out as the Print plugin for - GIMP, it has expanded into a collection of general purpose printer - drivers, and the enhanced Print plugin for GIMP is now only a - small part of the package. Furthermore, the name Gutenprint - recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type - printing press. Finally, the word "guten" means "good" in German. + Gutenprint was renamed from its original name of Gimp-Print in + order to clearly distinguish it from GIMP. While this package + started out as the Print plugin for GIMP, it has expanded into a + collection of general purpose printer drivers, and the enhanced + Print plugin for GIMP is now only a small part of the package. + Furthermore, the name Gutenprint recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, + the inventor of the movable type printing press. Finally, the + word "guten" means "good" in German. Please read the user's manual (in ODF format as doc/gutenprint-users-manual.odt or PDF format as @@ -123,7 +130,7 @@ A) OVERVIEW gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ================================================================ - Release: gutenprint 5.2.11-pre2 generated on 04 Oct 2015 + Release: gutenprint 5.2.11 generated on 12 Jan 2016 Features: Build CUPS: yes, installing in /usr |