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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:13:05 -0500 Subject: PPR: New PPR homepage, PPR 1.40a8 released I have created a PPR homepage. It is at: http://ppr.trincoll.edu/ I hope to gather there a set of links to information of interest to PPR users. Suggestion are welcome. If you have links to articles or 3rd party documenation people have written about PPR, please send them. I also need links to sources of PPD files, especially ones that can be downloaded and installed without using Microsoft Windows. I have just put PPR version 1.40a8 on the PPR web site. The URL is: ftp://ppr-dist.trincoll.edu/pub/ppr/ I intend to make this the last 1.40 alpha release. The next release will be 1.40b1. The features of the components which existed in 1.32 have been frozen. However, development of the new WWW interface will continue without regard to the feature freeze. In 1.40a7 the experimental Editps system was on by default. Because I have not yet had time to work on it or to incorporate any of your suggestions I have turned it off again. It will remain off in the 1.40 release. Besides bug fixes, this release has the following important features: * The distribution includes Patrick Powell's freely redistributable snprintf() implementation for systems that don't have it. * Multiple hosts can now be entered in uprint-remote.conf for one remote lpr queue. This makes failover print servers possible. * Added printer reset code to the Linux version of the parallel interface program. This makes the gsparallel interface program more robust. * Added a PNG filter script. * Added numberous features to the new WWW interface. * Improved passthru of non-PostScript printer languages. * Added an FreeBSD port form Alan F. Lundin. * Added the ppr --commentary option so that printer problems such as out-of-paper can be reported to the person whose job is being printed. I hope that this release will have few problems and we can move on quickly to a beta release and a full release. It has been a long time since 1.32 was released, so I would like to retire it with its bugs. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center PostMaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106