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authorDidier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>2016-02-16 15:15:42 +0100
committerDidier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>2016-02-16 15:15:42 +0100
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-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