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- pnm2ppa for Debian
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-
- This Debian package is a rewrite of the original pnm2ppa package using the
- Debian Build System (dbs) and debconf templates. The goal of this conversion
- was to bring pnm2ppa packages up to date with current Debian standards and to
- clean up the installation and upgrade process. This package provides the
- following:
-
- o A reasonable default configuration file
- o Clean generation of magicfilter files
- o Basic debconf management of the pnm2ppa.conf file
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- Debconf and Configuration
- -------------------------
- Debconf asks whether or not you'ld like it to manage your /etc/pnm2ppa.conf
- file and whether or not you want magicfilters generated in the /etc/magicfilter
- directory. If you choose to do this manually, you will need to edit the
- /etc/pnm2ppa.conf file yourself.
-
- You MUST choose a printer model for pnm2ppa to work!
-
- Some models behave differently than others, so pnm2ppa will fail if you do not
- choose a model.
-
- Magicfilter
- -----------
- Magicfilter is a useful print filtering tool to help you manage your
- /etc/printcap with print servers such as lpd or lprng. If you are using
- cupsys, you will not need magicfilter. There is a template for these filters
- located in /usr/share/pnm2ppa/templates called pnm2ppa-magicfilter.in. The
- scriptlet /usr/share/pnm2ppa/update-magicfilter will take this template and
- generate four filters: color, color economy, black and white, and black and
- white economy.
-
- Additionally, symbolic links are created from the generated pnm2ppa magicfilter
- files to pbm2ppa filters (the deprecated predecessor to pnm2ppa). This is
- simply provided for backwards compatibility with an existing /etc/printcap you
- may be using. This feature may be removed in the future.
-
- Once the filters are installed, run magicfilterconfig to generate your
- /etc/printcap.
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