Hi,
I have released cups-filters 1.12.0 now, with the following changes:
- cups-browsed: Added new "CreateRemoteCUPSPrinterQueues"
directive to cups-browsed.conf, which allows to decide
whether to auto-create local print queues for shared CUPS
queues on remote machines. This way one can also set up
servers which only create queues for IPP network printers.
- driverless: Added new /usr/lib/cups/driver/driverless
utility to make CUPS auto-generate PPD files for printers
designed for driverless use (IPP Everywhere, Apple Raster)
when they are set up with a printer setup tool. This gives
transparency to set up these printers with legacy printer
setup tools. This utility is also linked to /ustr/bin to
manually generate PPDs via command line.
- libcupsfilters, cups-browsed: Moved the PPD generator for
IPP network printers from cups-browsed to libcupsfilters, so
that it can also be used by other utilities.
- cups-browsed: When auto-generating a PPD set the cost values
in the filter lines to give the highest priority to PDF,
then PWG Raster, Apple Raster, PCL-XL, PostScript, PCL 5c/e.
- cups-browsed: Synced the PPD generator with the one of CUPS,
giving the best possible support for IPP Everywhere and
AirPrint printers. Especially support for more media types
and for finishing units got added. Also support for more
different ways to represent the printer capabilities via
IPP attributes got added.
- cups-browsed: Added support for auto setup of IPP printers
understanding the Apple Raster input data format (.urf, on
AirPrint printers), only if CUPS 2.2.2 is used, which can
generate this format via its rastertopwg filter.
- cups-browsed: Added new "NewIPPPrinterQueuesShared"
directive to cups-browsed.conf, which allows to decide
whether the auto-created local print queue for a newly
discovered IPP network printer will be shared or not. For
printers discovered earlier, cups-browsed remembers the
previous setting.
- cups-browsed: If a user changes the printer-is-shared bit of
an auto-created print queue for an IPP network printer (not
for a remote CUPS queue), record this fact and recover the
change when creating this queue in the next session.
- cups-browsed: For automatic creation of print queues for IPP
network printers also allow only creating queues for IPP
Everywhere printers, only for Apple Raster printers, or for
both printer types designed for driverless printing and not
only for all suitable printers, configurable via the
CreateIPPPrinterQueues directive in cups-browsed.conf.
These changes improve the support for IPP network printers which are
designed for driverless use, especially support for printers based on
the Apple Raster data format (image/urf, AirPrint printers, around 2600
models), more configuration options, sharing of auto-created queues for
IPP network printers, support for more media types and finishing units
in generated PPD, "driverless" command line utility to easily manually
auto-create PPDs for driverless printing or to let CUPS generate the
PPDs when using legacy printer setup tools.
Please do not upload this version before uploading CUPS 2.2.2. It uses
the new Apple Raster data format support of CUPS 2.2.2 and later and to
have Apple Raster support by itself it need to get built against CUPS 2.2.2.
So please wait for the release of CUPS 2.2.2 and upload this first. If
it is ready, upload cups-filters 1.12.0 (or later version). Thanks.
Till
