[riscos-printing] Gutenprint 5.0 for RISC OS announcement
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: riscos-printing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:50:08 +0100
The Gutenprint project (formerly known as Gimp-Print) has moved on
enormously since the release of Gimp-Print 4.2.7 on which the current
version of Gimp-Print for RISC OS is based (released on 20-Nov-04).
On July 30 2006, a major new version of the popular printer driver
software for UNIX/Linux/MacOS X was released and announced by the
development team as follows:
"The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce the first public
release of Gutenprint 5.0. This release, which has been under
development for over four years, offers improved quality, greatly
enhanced functionality, and support for many more printers than our
previous version, Gimp-Print 4.2."
Updating the RISC OS port from Gimp-Print 4.2.7 to Gutenprint 5.0 is
not trivial because the programming interface of the core print engine
has undergone major changes, which means that substantial parts of the
RISC OS interface layer have to be rewritten. Once that has been
achieved it is likely that future versions of Gutenprint can be
integrated with relatively little effort.
The Gutenprint 5.0 porting work has already started and the projected
release date is March 2007. You can find a list of printers supported
by Gutenprint 5.0 at
http://www.mw-software.com/software/gimp-print/supported5.html
Performance and memory requirements of Gutenprint are similar as for
Gimp-Print for RISC OS, but thanks to the quality improvements it is
expected that the same level of quality as before can be obtained
using significantly less memory.
Existing Gimp-Print for RISC OS users will be able to upgrade to
Gutenprint for RISC OS by making another donation. Details will be
announced when the software is available.
Martin
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