[Sussex] GPL and copyright

Geoffrey Teale gteale at cmedresearch.com
Thu Jul 7 14:49:30 UTC 2005


On Thursday 07 July 2005 15:44, Paul Tansom wrote:
>
> Interesting, when I last played with that - when I finally got around to
> getting printing working on my Linux box (I printed so rarely back then,
> and using OOo was lazy and just loaded up in Windows on the odd occasion
> I needed to!) I looked at that, and even installed it - unfortunately I
> couldn't find out what it did or how to use it. This time I installed it
> and found a whole raft of new printers listed in CUPS - before I
> reinstalled I had about 5 I think. No idea what went wrong last time,
> I'm afraid I gave up trying to find a page describing what to do with
> foomatic post install and downloaded the .ppd file manually and copied
> it to the appropriate directory! It'll be interesting to see how the
> output compares.

A PPD alone is rarely enough to drive anything that isn't Postscript based.

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Geoffrey Teale
Cmed Research  //  Free Software Foundation




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