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- This is Gimp-Print version 4.0.4, a stable release in the 4.0 line.
- Gimp-print is the print facility for the Gimp, and in addition a suite
- of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems using
- GhostScript or CUPS. These drivers provide printing quality for
- UNIX/Linux on a par with proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in many
- cases, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks.
-
- Please read the release notes (RELNOTES) carefully, as this release
- has many incompatibilities with 3.1 and 4.0 alpha releases, and minor
- incompatibilities with 4.0b1.
-
-
- BASIC INSTALLATION
-
- If you have downloaded a .tar.gz file (tarball), you should follow
- these directions.
-
- To build and install the Gimp Print plug-in:
-
- ./configure
- make
- make install
-
- This installs two programs: the print plugin itself (named "print") in
- your system Gimp plugin directory, and a utility named "escputil" for
- performing head cleaning, nozzle alignment, and other tasks on Epson
- Stylus inkjet printers. Type "escputil" for a description of the
- options and functionality.
-
- Please check our web site at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net for
- details about what is and is not supported.
-
- Please report any problems to gimp-print-devel@sourceforge.net.
-
- If you have installed the Gimp as a precompiled package (e. g. from an
- RPM), you will need to install the gimp-devel package as well as the
- gimp package. The gimp package as supplied in most distributions only
- contains what's needed to run the Gimp. The gimp-devel package
- contains additional files required to actually build new plugins.
-
- If you have installed the Gimp from source on Linux: after running
- make install, you must run ldconfig as root before attempting to build
- this plugin.
-
-
- GHOSTSCRIPT
-
- This package includes a Ghostscript driver that may be built, allowing
- use of this software for general printing purposes. Please read
- Ghost/README for more information, including how to build and install
- it.
-
- The Ghostscript driver also includes everything necessary to configure
- use with Grant Taylor's Foomatic printing package (see
- http://www.linuxprinting.org for a description of this package).
-
-
- CUPS
-
- This package includes a CUPS driver that may be built, allowing use of
- this software for general printing purposes. Please read cups/README
- for more information, including how to build and install it.
-
- If you prefer Cups-o-matic, instructions may be found in Ghost/README.
-
-
- RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
-
- We recommend starting with all default settings for the slider
- adjustments in the Color Adjustment window. The settings can be
- adjusted as necessary for particular combinations of ink, paper, and
- subject material.
-
- We recommend use of the Adaptive Hybrid dithering algorithm in most
- cases. Users of four color printers may find that the Ordered
- dithering algorithm is faster and produces nearly as good output. Use
- of this method is strongly discouraged on six color (photo) printers.
-
- On most inkjet printers, 720 dpi will produce very high quality;
- 1440x720 dpi will produce extremely high quality.
-
-
- SUPPORT
-
- There are four principal ways of requesting support for this package:
-
- 1) There are public forums on Sourceforge dedicated to this package.
- Please see http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=1537 for more
- information. The Help forum is a good source of information.
-
- 2) If you have a technical support issue that does not appear to be a
- bug in the software, you can use the Tech Support Manager. Please
- see http://sourceforge.net/support/?group_id=1537.
-
- 3) If you have found a clear bug in the package, you may file a bug
- report at http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1537.
-
- 4) You may send mail to the gimp-print-devel@sourceforge.net mailing
- list. This is recommended as a last resort only.
-
-
- USE OF THE CVS REPOSITORY
-
- If you have a copy of the source from the CVS repository, then prior
- to running configure, you must
-
- aclocal;autoconf;automake
-
- If you do run aclocal, beware that versions of the Gimp from 1.1.17
- and earlier have a version of gimp.m4 that will create an incorrect
- configure script. The patch is as follows:
-
- diff -u /usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp.m4~ /usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp.m4
- --- /usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp.m4~ Tue Mar 30 13:49:58 1999
- +++ /usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp.m4 Fri Feb 11 22:34:47 2000
- @@ -134,6 +134,13 @@
- AC_TRY_LINK([
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <libgimp/gimp.h>
- +GPlugInInfo PLUG_IN_INFO = /* Plug-in information */
- +{
- + NULL, /* init_proc */
- + NULL, /* quit_proc */
- + NULL, /* query_proc */
- + NULL, /* run_proc */
- +};
- ], [ return 0; ],
- [ echo "*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means"
- echo "*** that the run-time linker is not finding GIMP or finding the wrong"
-
- If you wish to build the Ghostscript driver, you must run 'make ghost'
- from top level.
-
- If you wish to build the CUPS driver, you must run 'make cups'
- from top level.
-
- If you are building this from a release, you should not have any
- trouble because the configure script will already exist.
-
- Enjoy!
-