Category: Software

I’ve built a snapshot of the new GPL Ghostscript in Fedora devel, due to popular demand. It’s a snapshot from the ghostscript.com SVN repository.  Hopefully it will fix a lot of the problems that the ESP branch was stuck with.

Last week I packaged a new major version of HPLIP for Fedora. One of the biggest changes is that it no longer requires daemons running in the background (i.e. the “hplip” service, being hpiod and hpssd) for its functionality. At long last!

I just built hal-cups-utils-0.6.11-2.fc8 which finishes off the “new printer” notifications. It’s all working, except for bugs in other packages: libnotify isn’t telling me when the user has clicked the “Configure” button (this bug is driving me mad trying to chase it down) SELinux is now preventing HPLIP from probing for attached printers, so we…

There is now a proper PPDs class in the printer admin tool, capable of indexing the PPDs that CUPS returns in a variety of useful ways. This means system-config-printer no longer needs to parse the foomatic XML database when looking for a printer driver, starting from version 0.7.67.

This sort of thing gets me down. I get a bug report that someone can’t use their printer, and it turns out it’s because it needs the foo2zjs driver. I can’t add foo2zjs to Fedora for legal reasons (as far as I can tell), and when I explained that to them, with a link to…