foomatic-rip

[Jason W]

Thanks to perthie for:

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Title:          foomatic-rip.tczl
Description:    Foomatic printer filter for CUPS
Version:        4.0.2
Author:         OpenPrinting.org
Original-site:  http://www.openprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-4.0.2.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
Size:           1.2MB
Extension_by:   perthie with components from juanito
Comments:       The foomatic-rip filter is used by some printer driver packages
Change-log:     ----------
Current:        2009/10/12 - first version - removed foomatic-rip from CUPS package
                           - foomatic4 is now a binary and does not require Perl




[Juanito]

It might be good to mention that this extension contains libgs - there may be a potential conflict with extensions like gsview.

In the meantime, I'll check if gsview will work with libgs from this package.

[jpeters]

Curious why it was removed from updated cups.

[Juanito]

Since foomatic-rip is not needed in order to be able to print in many cases, it seemed to make sense to have it as an optional dependency.

Note also that the foomatic-3.x in the original extension had a perl5 dep and foomatic-4.x in the recent cups1311 extension also includes libgs, so removing foomatic-rip from the extension saves >1MB in terms of the size of the cups/cups1311 extensions for those that don't require it.

[jpeters]

Since foomatic-rip is not needed in order to be able to print in many cases, it seemed to make sense to have it as an optional dependency.

Note also that the foomatic-3.x in the original extension had a perl5 dep and foomatic-4.x in the recent cups1311 extension also includes libgs, so removing foomatic-rip from the extension saves >1MB in terms of the size of the cups/cups1311 extensions for those that don't require it.

Haven't tried it yet, but I'm guessing I wouldn't need hplip.   

[Juanito]

I believe you could use the foomatic-rip and hpijs-dynppds extensions with cups1311 to avoid hplip - it would be interesting to see if it works.

[jpeters]

I believe you could use the foomatic-rip and hpijs-dynppds extensions with cups1311 to avoid hplip - it would be interesting to see if it works.

I'm hoping it works just with the HP940c driver. 

[perthie]

I'm hoping it works just with the HP940c driver.

Yes, the combination of cups1311 and hpijs-dynppds works with the HP940C under simulation.

[jpeters]

Doesn't seem to work with cups 1.4.1 though (without hplip) ; I'm not getting any visible error, just "stopped" job.

[Juanito]

I think this is the continuing problem with the cups-1.4.x libusb-based usb backend - apparently a bug fix is coming.

The cups-1.3.x non-libusb-based usb backend should be OK.

[perthie]

It might be good to mention that this extension contains libgs - there may be a potential conflict with extensions like gsview.

Yes, there is a bit of a problem.

Gsview has libgs.so.8.63
Foomatic-rip has libgs.so.8.70

Gsview does not work with the new version.
However, it looks like foomatic-rip WILL work with the old version. I will do some more tests.

I notice that "ldd gsview" does not list libgs at all. How is this working?

Meanwhile, the Xpdf viewer works fine.
The ideal solution would be to compile epdfview with printer support and we could all use it instead.

[perthie]

Doesn't seem to work with cups 1.4.1 though (without hplip) ; I'm not getting any visible error, just "stopped" job.

Hpijs-dynppds was built for CUPS 1.3.x and uses components from the CUPS Driver Development Kit.

In CUPS 1.4.x, the DDK content has been included. So I wouldn't be surprised if the two conflict.

[Juanito]

It might be good to mention that this extension contains libgs - there may be a potential conflict with extensions like gsview.

Yes, there is a bit of a problem.

Gsview has libgs.so.8.63
Foomatic-rip has libgs.so.8.70

Gsview does not work with the new version.
However, it looks like foomatic-rip WILL work with the old version. I will do some more tests.

Maybe the subject of a separate thread, but I recompiled libgs to work with gsview - it needs considerably more additional gs "stuff" for gsview to work than is required for foomatic-rip, so maybe best to keep the two separate.

..or maybe we could do:

foomatic-rip + libgs (2 extensions)
gsview + libgs + additional gs stuff (3 extensions)

[Jason W]

Thanks to perthie for an update:

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Title:          foomatic-rip.tcz
Description:    Foomatic printer filter for CUPS
Version:        4.0.2
Author:         OpenPrinting.org
Original-site:  http://www.openprinting.org/download/foomatic/foomatic-filters-4.0.2.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
Size:           40K
Extension_by:   perthie with components from juanito
Comments:       the foomatic-rip filter is used by some printer driver packages
                requires libgs.tczl
Change-log:     2009/10/12 - first version - removed foomatic-rip from CUPS package
                           - foomatic v4 is now a binary and does not require Perl
Current:        2009/10/15 - removed libgs and changed to a .tcz extension
                           - libgs is now a separate extension to maintain compatibility with gsview