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authorDidier Raboud <didier@raboud.com>2010-07-19 15:56:58 +0200
committerDidier Raboud <didier@raboud.com>2010-07-19 15:56:58 +0200
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Imported Upstream version 4.0.4upstream/4.0.4
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Foomatic 4.0.1
+Foomatic 4.0.4
==============
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ Filter scripts used by the printer spoolers to convert the incoming
PostScript data into the printer's native format using a
printer/driver specific, but spooler-independent PPD file.
-Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
-Lars Uebernickel <larsuebernickel@gmx.de>
-
http://www.openprinting.org/
This README contains mainly info for developers. See the file USAGE if
@@ -22,8 +19,18 @@ you want to know how to use Foomatic.
Copying
-------
-This package and also the other Foomatic packages are under the
-GPL. See http://www.gnu.org/.
+This package is free software and can be redistributed and/or modified
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 2 of
+the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
+Lars Uebernickel <larsuebernickel@gmx.de>
+Grant Taylor <gtaylor@picante.com>
+Helge Blischke <h.blischke@srz.de>
Bugs
@@ -95,14 +102,14 @@ printer/driver capabilities info. Manufacturer-supplied PPDs (in most
cases of of PostScript printers) can be used, too.
foomatic-rip is now written in C, in contrary to Perl in Foomatic
-3.x. This allows foomatic-rip to link directly with libraries. Besides
-the standard libraries, foomatic-rip currently only uses the
-Ghostscript library libgs. The functionality of the former
-foomatic-gswrapper is now integrated into foomatic-rip, so the
-foomatic-gswrapper is not needed any more.
+3.x. This allows foomatic-rip to link directly with
+libraries. foomatic-rip currently uses only the standard
+libraries. The functionality of the former foomatic-gswrapper is now
+integrated into foomatic-rip, so the foomatic-gswrapper is not needed
+any more.
beh is still written in Perl and does not need anything else than a
-Perl interpreter.It is only for use with CUPS.
+Perl interpreter. It is only for use with CUPS.
The test/ subdirectory contains a test suite, originally developed for
the distribution compliance tests of the LSB. It also serves as a
@@ -122,14 +129,7 @@ contains the documentation.
Dependencies
------------
-To build this package you need a C compiler, its standard libraries,
-and the Ghostscript library (libgs, /usr/lib/libgs.so*). For the
-latter Ghostscript must be built in shared library mode ("make
-so"). If your libgs is provided by your operating system distribution,
-make sure that its C headers (package libgs.dev(el) or
-ghostscript.dev(el)) are installed.
-
-To run foomatic-rip you need to have the Ghostscript library installed.
+To build this package you need a C compiler, and its standard libraries.
To run beh a Perl interpreter (5.6.0 and newer) is needed.