The PPR Spooler

This page is a directory of information of use to users of PPR. PPR is a printer spooler specially designed for spooling jobs to PostScript printers or to non-PostScript printers using Ghostscript. It was written by David Chappell at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

This page was last modified on 7 December 2006.

News

• 7 December 2006--PPR 1.55 has been released. This is a maintainance release consisting entirely of bug fixes and 64 bit Linux compatibility fixes backported from the 2.XX branch.
• 11 April 2006--PPR 1.54 has been released. This is a maintainance release with the changes consisting mainly of bug fixes backported from the 2.XX branch.
• 29 March 2005--Mailing list moved from Majordomo to Mailman.
• 11 December 2004--PPR 1.53 has been released.
• 7 October 2004--PPR 1.53b1 has been released.
• 20 February 2004--PPR 1.53a1 has been released.
• 23 January 2004--Created a PPR wiki.
• 6 November 2003--Printer interface program documentation in the PPR Hacker's Guide has been greatly improved and updated.
• 26 September 2003--PPR 1.52 has been released.
• 10 September 2003--We note that the OSI has published a Position Paper on SCO vs. World.
• 25 July 2003--PPR 1.51 has been released.
• 13 March 2003--Custom Hooks have been documented in the PPR Hacker's Guide.
• 15 February 2003--PPR 1.50 has been released.

PPR Information

• Announcement of Last Stable Release
• Downloading PPR
• PPR's SourceForge Project Page
• Browsable CVS Repository
• Installation Instructions for PPR 1.54
• PPR FAQ
• PPR 1.54 Documentation Online
• PPR 2.XX Draft Documentation Online (Moving toward next release)
• PPR Mailing List
• WWW Interface Screenshots
• Ways You Can Help the PPR Project
• PPR Wiki

Networking Software With Which PPR is Integrated

• Samba -- Unix file and printer server for Microsoft and IBM clients
• CAP -- Columbia AppleTalk Program
• Netatalk

Ghostscript

• Ghostscript Home Page
• Ghostscript Community Page
• ESP Ghostscript (Ghostscript distribution for driving printers)
• Official HP Inkjet Drivers for Ghostscript
• IBM Omni Drivers for Ghostscript

Win32/MacOS Printer Drivers

• Xerox Printer Drivers
• Adobe's MS-Windows and Macintosh drivers

PPD Files for PPR and Clients

• Foomatic Printer Driver Database and PPD File Generator -- Includes support for inkjet printers and Ghostscript
• Adobe's PPD File Collection (The MS-Windows PPD packages have an .exe extension but can be unzipped.)
• Adobe's PPD Files Converted to Unix Text Files (as of 12 May 2000)

Programs for Converting other File Formats to PostScript

• HTMLDOC -- Free Software to Convert HTML to PostScript or PDF
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Xpdf GPL licensed PDF viewer and PDF to PostScript converter
• teTeX Homepage
• jpeg2ps
• Xfig and Transfig/fig2dev

Other Opensource Printing Projects

• Linux Printing HOWTO
• The Common Unix Print System
• GNUlpr

General PostScript Information

• Adobe -- Technical Notes for Developers
• Adobe -- PostScript 3 SDK
• Internet Resource for PostScript and Ghostscript

Fonts and Character Sets

• Adobe -- Type Technology Forum
• Unicode Consortium
• Adobe -- OpenType Font Format Specification
• Microsoft -- OpenType Specifications
• TrueType Typeography Information
• Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts For the Web (Download Win 3.1 versions and use unzip on the .exe files.)

PPR Reviews

• Linux Journal June 1999

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