From 6aa392e1314567b23ab733fc5e8cf8332a344452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sl=C3=A1vek=20Banko?= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:52:37 +0100 Subject: Move the khelpcenter guides to the directory level in which they are installed. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Slávek Banko (cherry picked from commit 1b6c123de102f0152d296fba8771d348329ba95c) --- doc/glossary/CMakeLists.txt | 14 - doc/glossary/Makefile.am | 2 - doc/glossary/checkxrefs | 10 - doc/glossary/index.docbook | 295 ------- doc/glossary/tdeprintingglossary.docbook | 1384 ------------------------------ 5 files changed, 1705 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/glossary/CMakeLists.txt delete mode 100644 doc/glossary/Makefile.am delete mode 100755 doc/glossary/checkxrefs delete mode 100644 doc/glossary/index.docbook delete mode 100644 doc/glossary/tdeprintingglossary.docbook (limited to 'doc/glossary') diff --git a/doc/glossary/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/glossary/CMakeLists.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 73a84f204..000000000 --- a/doc/glossary/CMakeLists.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -################################################# -# -# (C) 2010-2011 Serghei Amelian -# serghei (DOT) amelian (AT) gmail.com -# -# Improvements and feedback are welcome -# -# This file is released under GPL >= 2 -# -################################################# - -tde_create_handbook( - FILES checkxrefs index.docbook tdeprintingglossary.docbook - DESTINATION khelpcenter/glossary ) diff --git a/doc/glossary/Makefile.am b/doc/glossary/Makefile.am deleted file mode 100644 index e79a46842..000000000 --- a/doc/glossary/Makefile.am +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -KDE_LANG = en -KDE_DOCS = khelpcenter/glossary diff --git a/doc/glossary/checkxrefs b/doc/glossary/checkxrefs deleted file mode 100755 index 6da64c184..000000000 --- a/doc/glossary/checkxrefs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -DEFINED_ENTRIES=`sed -ne "s^.*.*^\1^p" *.docbook` -REFERENCED_ENTRIES=`sed -ne "s^.*.*^\1^p" *.docbook | unique` - -# Check for entries which are referenced but not defined. -for ENTRY in $REFERENCED_ENTRIES; do - if ! echo $DEFINED_ENTRIES | grep $ENTRY - > /dev/null 2>&1; then - echo "'$ENTRY' referenced but not defined!" - fi -done diff --git a/doc/glossary/index.docbook b/doc/glossary/index.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index a812b50f4..000000000 --- a/doc/glossary/index.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,295 +0,0 @@ - - - - - -]> - - - - -&glossary-tdeprinting; - - - Technologies - - IO Slave - IO Slaves enable &tde; applications to - access remote resources as easily as local resources (making them - network transparent). Remote resources (⪚ files) might - be stored on SMB shares or similar. - SMB - &tde; - - - - TDEIO - The &tde; Input/Output system which makes use of so-called - IO Slaves. - IO -Slave - &tde; - - - - KParts - KParts is an embedding technology which allows &tde; - applications to embed other &tde; applications. For example, the text - view used by &konqueror; is a KPart. - &konqueror; - - - - KSycoca - KSycoca (&tde; System - Configuration Cache) is a - configuration cache which, for example, guarantees fast access to the menu - entries. - KBuildSycoca - - - - - - XFree86 - - Antialiasing - If mentioned in context with &tde;, antialiasing often means - the smoothing of the fonts visible on the screen. &Qt; version 2.3.0 - or higher used together with XFree86 4.x makes this possible under &tde; - as well. - &tde; - &Qt; - - - - &X-Server; - The &X-Server; represents a basic layer upon which the - various &GUI;s like &tde; are built. It manages the - basic mouse and keyboard input (from the local host as well as from - remote hosts) and provides elementary graphic routines to draw - rectangles and other primitives. - &tde; - &GUI; - - - - - - Applications - - KBuildSycoca - KBuildSycoca is a command line -program and regenerates the - so-called KSycoca. This is useful, for example, if some -or all modules in - &kcontrol; are missing. - KSycoca - &kcontrol; - - - - &kcontrol; - This is the project and filename of the &tde; control - center. &kcontrol; allows you to customize virtually - every configuration option of &tde;. - &tde; - - - - &kicker; - &kicker; is the nickname as well as project name of the - &tde; panel. - &tde; - Panel - - - - &konqueror; - &konqueror; is a filemanager, web browser, picture viewer - and more, and a core part of the &tde; project. You can - find more information about &konqueror; at www.konqueror.org. - &tde; - - - - &ksirc; - &ksirc; is the default IRC client, - which is shipped with &tde;. You can use &ksirc; to chat with anyone on - an IRC network. - IRC - - - - - - Desktop Terminology - - Drag and Drop - This concept tries to replace many actions like copying - files from one place to another by a certain mouse movement, ⪚ - clicking on an icon in a &konqueror; window, moving the mouse to another - window while keeping the mouse button pressed, and releasing the mouse - button (dropping the object) copies files. - &konqueror; - - - - &GUI; - Abbreviation for Graphical - User Interface. Every desktop - environment (like &tde;) is a &GUI;. Most - &GUI;s feature mouse support and/or windows to manage - the programs. - &tde; - - - - &tde; - Abbreviation for Trinity Desktop Environment, a - leading &GUI; for &UNIX;-based systems. You can find more - detailled information at www.kde.org. - &GUI; - - - - GNOME - - GNU Network Object - Model Environment, one of the - leading &UNIX; &GUI;s. - &GUI; - - - - Panel - Refers to the panel (also known as - &kicker;) which often resides at the bottom of the - screen. - &tde; - &kicker; - - - - ripping - The process of reading audio data from a &cdrom; and - storing it on the hard disk. - - - - - - &tde; Development - - &Qt; - The &GUI; of &tde; is built on top of - the &Qt; toolkit, which provides many graphical elements (so-called - Widgets) which are used to construct the desktop. You - can find more information about &Qt; at www.trolltech.com. - &tde; - &GUI; - Widget - - - - i18n - Abbreviation for internationalization. &tde; - supports many different languages, and several i18n techniques make it - easy to translate the &GUI; as well as the accompanying - documents of &tde; into all these languages. More information about the - i18n process is available at i18n.kde.org. - &tde; - &GUI; - - - - l10n - Abbreviation for localization, the process - of adapting a program to the local environment. This includes ⪚ the - currency used for monetary values or the time format. - i18n - - - - Widget - Graphical elements like scrollbars, buttons or input - fields which are used by &tde; to construct the &GUI;. - - &tde; - &GUI; - - - - CVS - - Concurrent Version -System. - The CVS is a very elegant way of managing file -versions that allow more than one developer - to easily work on the same project. You can find a description of how to -get the latest (developer) version of the - &tde; sources via anonymous CVS on - http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html. - More about CVS is available at www.cvshome.org. - - - - - - - - Miscellaneous - - RFC - Request For - Comment. A common way to publish new protocol - ideas or procedures for evaluation of the Internet community. Though - RFCs are not mandatory, many applications try to - adhere to them, once they have been approved by the community. More - information about RFCs can be found at the - RFC Homepage. - - - - - - Various protocols - - SMB - Server Message - Block. A network protocol used in &Microsoft; &Windows; - networks to access the filesystems of other computers. - IO -Slave - - - - IRC - Internet Relay - Chat. A protocol defined in RFC - 1459, which handles the specification to enable real time text chat. - RFC - - - - host - This can either be a name from your - /etc/hosts file - (mycomputer), - an Internet name (www.kde.org) or an IP-Address - (192.168.0.10). - - - - - diff --git a/doc/glossary/tdeprintingglossary.docbook b/doc/glossary/tdeprintingglossary.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index cec585741..000000000 --- a/doc/glossary/tdeprintingglossary.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1384 +0,0 @@ - - - - Printing - - - - ACLs - Abbreviation for Access - Control Lists; - ACLs are used to check for the access by a given - (authenticated) user. A first rough support for ACLs - for printing is available from ∪︀; this will be refined - in future versions. - Authentication - - - - - AppSocket Protocol - AppSocket is a protocol for the transfer of - print data, also frequently called "Direct TCP/IP Printing". - &Hewlett-Packard; have taken AppSocket, added a few minor - extensions around it and been very successful in renaming - and marketing it under the brand "&HP; JetDirect"... - &HP; JetDirect Protocol - Direct TCP/IP Printing - - - - - APSfilter - APSfilter is used mainly in the context of "classical" - &UNIX; printing (BSD-style LPD). It is a sophisticated shell script, - disguised as an "all-in-one" filtering program. In reality, - APSfilter calls "real filters" to do the jobs needed. It sends - printjobs automatically through these other filters, based on an - initial file-type analysis of the printfile. - It is written and maintained by Andreas Klemm. - - It is - similar to Magicfilter and mostly uses Ghostscript for file conversions. - Some Linux Distributions (like &SuSE;) use APSfilter, others - Magicfilter (like &RedHat;), some have both for preference selection - (like *BSD). - - ∪︀ has no need for APSfilter, - as it runs its own file type recognition (based on &MIME; types) - and applies its own filtering logic. - Ghostscript - Magicfilter - &MIME;-Types - printcap - - - - - Authentication - Proving the identity of a certain person (maybe via username/password - or by means of a certificate) is often called authentication. Once you are - authenticated, you may or may not get access to a requested ressource, - possibly based on ACLs. - ACLs - - - - - Bi-directional communication - In the context of printing, a server or a host may receive additional - information sent back from the printer (status messages &etc;), either - upon a query or unrequested. AppSocket ( = &HP; JetDirect), ∪︀ and IPP - support bi-directional communication, LPR/LPD and BSD-style printing - do not... - AppSocket Protocol - ∪︀ - Direct TCP/IP Printing - &HP; JetDirect - IPP - LPR/LPD - - - - - BSD-style Printing - Generic term for different variants of the traditional &UNIX; - printing method. Its first version appeared in the early 70s on - BSD &UNIX; and was formally described in RFC 1179 only as late - as 1990. - - At the time when BSD "remote" printing was first designed, printers - were serially or otherwise directly connected devices to a host - (with the Internet hardly consisting of more than 100 nodes!); printers - used hole-punched, continuous paper, fed through by a tractor - mechanism, with simple rows of ASCII text mechanically hammered on to - the medium, drawn from a cardboard box beneath the table. It came out - like a zig-zag folded paper "snake". Remote printing consisted of a - neighboring host in the next room sending a file - asking for printout. - - How technology has changed! Printers generally use cut-sheet media, they have - built-in intelligence to compute the raster images of pages after pages - that are sent to them using one of the powerful page description - languages (PDL). Many are network nodes in their own right, - with CPU, RAM, a hard disk and their own Operation System, and - are hooked to a net with potentially millions of users... - - It is a vast proof of the flexible &UNIX; concept for doing things, - that it made "Line Printing" reliably work even under these modern - conditions. But time has finally come now to go for something new - -- the IPP. - - It is strong proof of the flexibility of &UNIX;; that "Line Printing" works - reliably, even under these modern conditions. But time has finally come now - to go for something new -- mdash; the IPP. - - - IPP - ∪︀ - LPR/LPD printing - - - - - ∪︀ - Abbreviation for Common - UNIX Printing - System; ∪︀ is the most modern &UNIX; and Linux - printing system, also providing cross-platform print services - to &Microsoft; &Windows; and Apple &MacOS; clients. Based on IPP, it does - away with all the pitfalls of old-style BSD printing, - providing authentication, encryption and ACLs, plus many more - features. At the same time it is backward-compatible enough - to serve all legacy clients that are not yet up to IPP, via - LPR/LPD (BSD-style). - - ∪︀ is able to control any &PostScript; printer by - utilizing the vendor-supplied PPD (PostScript Printer - Description file), targeted originally for &Microsoft; Windows NT - printing only. &tde; Printing is most powerful if based on - ∪︀. - ACLs - Authentication - BSD-style printing - IPP - TDEPrint - LPR/LPD - PPD - - - - - - ∪︀-FAQ - Currently only available in German (translation is on the way), - the ∪︀-FAQ - is a valuable resource to answer many questions that anyone new to - ∪︀ printing might have at first. - - TDEPrint Handbook - - - - - - ∪︀-O-Matic - ∪︀-O-Matic was the first "Third Party" plugin for - the ∪︀ printing software. It is available on the Linuxprinting.org - website to provide an online PPD-generating service. - - - Together with the companion cupsomatic Perl-Script, - that needs to be installed as an additional ∪︀ backend, - it redirects output from the native pstops filter into - a chain of suitable Ghostscript filters. Upon completion, it - passes the resulting data back to a ∪︀ "backend" for sending - to the printer. - - In this way, ∪︀-O-Matic enables support for any printer known to - have worked previously in a "classical" Ghostscript environment. - If no native ∪︀ support for that printer is in sight... ∪︀-O-Matic - is now replaced by the more capable PPD-O-Matic. - cupsomatic - PPD-O-Matic - Foomatic - - - - - - cupsomatic - The Perl script cupsomatic (plus a working Perl installation - on your system) is needed to make any ∪︀-O-Matic (or PPD-O-Matic) - generated PPD work with ∪︀. It was written by Grant Taylor, author of - the Linux Printing HOWTO and Maintainer of the printer - database at the Linuxprinting.org website. - ∪︀-O-Matic - Foomatic - cupsomatic - - - - - Daemon - Abbreviation for Disk - and execution - monitor; Daemons are present - on all &UNIX; systems to perform tasks independent of user - intervention. Readers more familiar with &Microsoft; &Windows; might - want to compare daemons and the tasks they are responsible - with "services". - - One example of a daemon present on most - legacy &UNIX; systems is the LPD (Line Printer Daemon); ∪︀ is - widely seen as the successor to LPD in the &UNIX; world and - it also operates through a daemon. - SPOOLing - - - - - Database, Linuxprinting.org - Already years ago, when Linux printing was still really difficult - (only command line printing was known to most Linux users, no device - specific print options were available for doing the jobs), Grant Taylor, - author of the "Linux Printing HOWTO", collected most of the available - information about printers, drivers and filters in his database. - - With the emerging - ∪︀ concept, extending the use of PPDs even to non-PostScript printers, - he realized the potential of this database: if one puts the different - datablobs (with content that could be described along the lines - "Which device prints with which Ghostscript or other - filter?", "How well?", and "What command line switches are available?") into - PPD-compatible files, he could have all the power of ∪︀ on top of - the traditional printer "drivers". - - This has now developed into a broader - concept, known as "Foomatic". Foomatic extends the capabilities - of spoolers other than ∪︀ (LPR/LPD, LPRng, PDQ, PPR) to a certain - degree ("stealing" some concepts from ∪︀). The Linuxprinting - Database is not a Linux-only stop -- mdash; people running other &UNIX; - based OSes (like *BSD or &MacOS; X) will also find valuable information - and software there. - - Foomatic - Linuxprinting database - - - - - Direct TCP/IP Printing - This is a method that often uses TCP/IP port 9100 to connect - to the printer. It works with many modern network printers and has - a few advantages over LPR/LPD, as it is faster and provides some - "backchannel feedback data" from the printer to the host sending - the job. - AppSocket Protocol - &HP; JetDirect Protocol - - - - - - Drivers, Printer Drivers - The term "printer drivers", used in the same sense - as on the &Microsoft; &Windows; platform, is not entirely applicable - to a Linux or &UNIX; platform. A "driver" functionality - is supplied on &UNIX; by different modular components working - together. At the core of the printer drivers are "filters". Filters convert - print files from a given input format to another format that is acceptable - to the target printer. In many cases filters may be connected to a whole - filter "chain", where only the result of the last conversion is sent to the - printer. The actual transfer of the print data to the device is performed by - a "backend". - - Filter - PPDs - - - - - Easy Software Products - Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial - software products towards the Free Software community; amongst - them the initial version of Gimp-Print, the EPM software packaging tool - and HTMLDOC - (used by the "Linux Documentation Project" to build the PDF versions - of the HOWTOs) -- mdash; but most importantly: ∪︀ (the 'Common &UNIX; Printing - System'). - - ESP finance themselves by selling a commercial version - of ∪︀, called ESP PrintPro, - that includes some professional enhancements. - - ∪︀ - ESP PrintPro - ESP - Gimp-Print - - - - - Encryption - Encryption of confidential data is an all-important issue if - you transfer it over the Internet or even within intranets. - - Printing - via traditional protocols is not encrypted at all -- mdash; it is very easy - to tap and eavesdrop ⪚ into &PostScript; or PCL data transfered - over the wire. - - Therefore, in the design of IPP, provision was made for the easy - plugin of encryption mechanisms (which can be provided by the same - means as the encryption standards for HTTP traffic: SSL and TLS). - Authentication - ∪︀ - IPP - SSL - TLS - - - - - - Epson - Epson inkjets are among the best supported models by Free software - drivers, as the company was not necessarily as secretive about their - devices and handed technical specification documents to developers. - The excellent print quality achieved by Gimp-Print on the Stylus - series of printers can be attributed to this openness. - - They have also - contracted Easy Software Products to maintain an enhanced version - of Ghostscript ("ESP GhostScript") for improved support of their - printer portfolio. - - ESP Ghostscript - - - - - - Escape Sequences - The first ever printers printed ASCII data only. To - initiate a new line, or eject a page, they included special - command sequences, often carrying a leading [ESC]-character. - &HP; evolved this concept through its series of PCL language - editions until today, having now developed a full-blown - Page Description Language (PDL) from these humble beginnings. - - PCL - PDL - - - - - ESC/P - Abbreviation for Epson - Standard Codes for - Printers. Besides &PostScript; and PCL, Epson's ESC/P - printer language is one of the best known. - PCL - &PostScript; - hpgl - - - - - ESP - Abbreviation for Easy - Software Products; - the company that developed ∪︀ (the "Common &UNIX; Printing System"). - - Easy Software Products - ∪︀ - ESP PrintPro - - - - - - ESP Ghostscript - A Ghostscript version that is maintained by Easy Software - Products. It includes pre-compiled Gimp-Print drivers for - many inkjets (plus some other goodies). ESP Ghostscript - will produce photographic quality prints in many cases, especially - with the Epson Stylus model series. ESP Ghostscript is GPL-software. - - Easy Software Products - ∪︀ - ESP PrintPro - - - - - ESP PrintPro - This professional enhancement to ∪︀ (the "Common &UNIX; - Printing System") is sold by the developers - of ∪︀ complete with more than 2,300 printer drivers for several commercial - &UNIX; platforms. ESP PrintPro - is supposed to work "out of the box" with little or no configuration - for users or admins. ESP also sell support contracts for - ∪︀ and PrintPro. These sales help to feed the programmers who - develop the Free version of ∪︀. - - ∪︀ - - - - - Filter - Filters, in general, are programs that take some input - data, work on it and pass it on as their output data. Filters - may or may not change the data. - - Filters in the context of printing, are programs that convert - a given file (destined for printing, but not suitable in the - format it is presently) into a printable format. Sometimes - whole "filter chains" have to be constructed to achieve the - goal, piping the output of one filter as the input to the next. - - Ghostscript - RIP - - - - - Foomatic - Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of - different tools available from Linuxprinting.org - These tools aimed to make the usage of traditional - Ghostscript and other print filters easier for users and - extend the filters' capabilities by adding more command line - switches or explain the driver's execution data. - - Foomatic's different incarnations are ∪︀-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic, - PDQ-O-Matic, LPD-O-Matic, PPR-O-Matic, MF-O-Matic and - Direct-O-Matic. All of these allow the generation - of appropriate printer configuration files online, by simply - selection the suitable model and suggested (or alternate) driver - for that machine. - - More recently, Foomatic gravitated towards becoming a "meta-spooling" - system, that allows configuration of the underlying print subsystem - through a unified set of commands (however, this is much more - complicated than TDEPrint's &GUI; interface, which performs a similar - task with regards to different print subsystems). - ∪︀-O-Matic - PPD-O-Matic - cupsomatic - - - - - Ghostscript - Ghostscript is a &PostScript; Raster Image Processor (RIP) in software, originally - developed by L. Peter Deutsch. There is always a GPL version - of Ghostscript available for free usage and distribution - (mostly 1 year old) while - the current version is commercially sold under another license. - - Ghostscript is widely used inside the Linux and &UNIX; world - for transforming &PostScript; into raster data suitable - for sending to non-&PostScript; devices. - &PostScript; - RIP - - - - - Gimp-Print - Contrary to its name, Gimp-Print is no longer - just the plugin to be used for printing from the popular - Gimp program -- mdash; its codebase can also serve to be compiled - into... - - *...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly - into ∪︀, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing - photographic output quality in many cases; - - - *...a Ghostscript filter that can be used with any other - program that needs a software-RIP; - - - *...a library that can be used by other software applications - in need of rasterization functions. - - - - - Lexmark Drivers - RIP - Ghostscript - - - - - &HP; - Abbreviation for Hewlett-Packard; - one of the first companies to distribute their own Linux printer - drivers. -- mdash; More recently, the Company has released their - "HPIJS" package of drivers, including source code and a Free license. - This is the first printer manufacturer to do so. HPIJS supports most - current models of HP Ink- and DeskJets. - - - - - - - &HP;/GL - Abbreviation for &HP; - Graphical Language; - a &HP; printer language mainly used for plotters; many CAD - (Computer Aided Design) software programs output &HP;/GL files for - printing. - ESC/P - PCL - &PostScript; - - - - - &HP; JetDirect Protocol - A term branded by &HP; to describe their implementation - of print data transfer to the printer via an otherwise "AppSocket" or - "Direct TCP/IP Printing" named protocol. - AppSocket Protocol - Direct TCP/IP Printing - - - - - IETF - Abbreviation for Internet - Engineering Task - Force; an assembly of Internet, software - and hardware experts that discuss - new networking technologies and very often arrive at - conclusions that are regarded by many as standards. "TCP/IP" - is the most famous example. - - - IETF standards, as well as - drafts, discussions, ideas and useful tutorials, are - put in writing in the famous series of "RFCs", which - are available to the public and included in most Linux and - BSD distributions. - IPP - PWG - RFC - - - - - IPP - Abbreviation for Internet - Printing Protocol; - defined in a series of RFCs accepted by the IETF with - status "proposed standard"; was designed - by the PWG. -- mdash; IPP is a completely new design for network printing, - but it utilizes a very well-known and proven method for the - actual data transfer: HTTP 1.1! By not "re-inventing the wheel", - and basing itself on an existing and robust Internet standard, - IPP is able to relatively easily bolt other HTTP-compatible standard - mechanisms into its framework: - - * Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication - mechanisms; - - * SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred - data; - - * LDAP for directory services (to publish - data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or - also to the network; or to check for passwords while - performing authentication). - - - - - - ∪︀ - PWG - IETF - RFC - TLS - - - - - TDEPrint - The new printing functionality of &tde; since version 2.2 - consists of several modules that translate the features and settings - of different available print subsystems (∪︀, BSD-style LPR/LPD, RLPR...) - into nice &tde; desktop &GUI; windows and dialogs to ease their - usage. - - Most important for day-to-day usage is "kprinter", the new - &GUI; print command. -- mdash; Note: TDEPrint does not implement its own - spooling mechanism or its own &PostScript; processing; for this it - relies on the selected print subsystem - -- however it does add some functionality of its own on top of this - foundation... - - BSD-style printing - ∪︀ - kprinter - TDEPrint Handbook - - - - - - TDEPrint Handbook... - ...is the name of the reference document that describes TDEPrint - functions to users and administrators. You can load it into Konqueror by - typing "help:/tdeprint" into the address field. It is authored and maintained by Kurt - Pfeifle. - - ∪︀-FAQ - - - - - kprinter - kprinter is the new powerful - print utility that is natively used by all &tde; applications. - - Contrary to some common misconceptions, - kprinter is not a ∪︀-only tool, - but supports different print subsystems. You can even switch - to a different print subsystem "on the fly", in between two jobs, - without re-configuration. Of course, due to the powerful - features of ∪︀, kprinter is - best suited for use with a ∪︀ frontend. - - kprinter is the successor - to "qtcups", which is no longer being actively maintained. It has - inherited all the best features of qtcups and added several new ones. - - - MOST IMPORTANT: you can use kprinter - with all its features in all non-&tde; applications that allow - a customized print command, like gv, Acrobat Reader, Netscape, - Mozilla, Galeon, StarOffice, OpenOffice and all GNOME programs. - - kprinter can act as a "standalone" - utility, started from an X-Terminal or a "Mini-CLI" to - print many different files, from different folders, with different - formats, in one job and simultaneously, without the need to first open the - files in the applications! (File formats supported this way are &PostScript;, - PDF, International and ASCII Text, as well as many different popular graphic - formats, such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, Sun RASTER, &etc;) - - QtCUPS - - - - - Lexmark - was one of the first companies to distribute their own Linux printer - drivers for some of their models. However, those drivers are binary only - (no source code available), and therefore cannot be used to integrate into - other Free printing software projects. - - - - - - Linuxprinting.org - Linuxprinting.org = not just for Linux; all &UNIX;-like OS-es, - like *BSD and commercial Unices may find useful printing - information on this site. This web site is the home for the interesting - Foomatic project, that strives to develop the "Meta Print Spool and Driver - Configuration Toolset" (being able to configure, through one common - interface, different print subsystems and their required drivers) with the - ability to transfer all queues, printers and configuration files seamlessly - to another spooler without new configuration effort. -- mdash; Also, they maintain - the Printing Database; a collection of driver and device information that - enables everybody to find the most current information about printer models, - and also generate online the configuration files for any - spooler/driver/device combo known to work with one of the common Linux or - &UNIX; print subsystems. - - Linuxprinting database - - - - - - Linuxprinting.org Database - ....Database containing printers and drivers that are suitable - for them... ...a lot of information and documentation to be found... ...it - is now also providing some tools and utilities for easing the integration - of those drivers into a given system... ...the "Foomatic" family - of utilities; being the toolset to make use of the database - for most of the commonly used print subsystems, for generating "on the fly" - working configurations for your printer model. - - Foomatic - - - - - LPR/LPD printing - LPR == some people translate Line - Printing Request, others: - Line Printer - Remote. - BSD-style printing - - - - - Magicfilter - Similarly to the APSfilter program, Magicfilter - provides automatic file type recognition functions and, base - on that, automatic file conversion to a printable format, - depending on the target printer. - APSfilter - - - - - &MIME;-Types - Abbreviation for Multipurpose (or - Multimedia) Internet Mail - Extensions; &MIME;-Types were first used to allow - the transport of binary data (like mail attachments containing - graphics) over mail connections that were normally only transmitting - ASCII characters: the data had to be encoded into an ASCII representation. - - Later this concept was extended to describe a data format in - a platform independent, but at the same time non-ambiguous, way. - From &Windows; everybody knows the .doc extensions for &Microsoft; Word files. - This is handled ambiguously on the &Windows; platform: .doc extensions are also - used for simple text files or for Adobe Framemaker files. And if a real - Word file is renamed with a different extension, it can no longer be - opened by the program. - - &MIME; typed files carry a recognition string with them, describing - their file format based on main_category/sub_category. - Inside IPP, print files are also described using the &MIME; type scheme. - &MIME; types are registered with the IANA (Internet Assigning Numbers - Association) to keep them unambiguous. - - ∪︀ has some &MIME; types of its own registered, like - application/vnd.cups-raster (for the ∪︀-internal - raster image format). - - - ∪︀ - Easy Software Products - ESP PrintPro - Gimp-Print - - - - - PCL - Abbreviation for Printer - Control Language; - developed by &HP;. PCL started off in version 1 as a simple - command set for ASCII printing; now, - in its versions PCL6 and PCL-X, it is capable of printing graphics - and color -- mdash; but outside the &Microsoft; &Windows; realm and &HP-UX; - (&HP;'s own brand of &UNIX;), it is not commonly used... - ESC/P - &HP;/GL - PDL - &PostScript; - - - - - PDL - Abbreviation for Page - Description Language; - PDLs describe, in an abstract way, the graphical representation - of a page. - Before it is actually transferred into - toner or ink laid down on to paper, a PDL needs to be - "interpreted" first. In &UNIX;, the most important PDL - is &PostScript;. - - ESC/P - &HP;/GL - PCL - &PostScript; - - - - - Pixel - Abbreviation for Picture - Element; this term describes the smallest - part of a raster picture (either as printed on paper - or as displayed on a monitor by cathode rays or LCD elements). As - any graphical or image representation on those types of output - devices is composed of pixels, the values of "ppi" (pixel per inch) - and &dpi; (dots per inch) are one important parameter for the - overall quality and resolution of an image. - Filter - Ghostscript - &PostScript; - Raster - - - - - PJL - Abbreviation for Print - Job Language; - developed by &HP; to control and influence default and per-job - settings of a printer. It may not only be used - for &HP;'s own (PCL-)printers; also many &PostScript; - and other printers understand PJL commands sent to them - inside a print job, or in a separate signal. - PCL - - - - - &PostScript; - &PostScript; (often shortened to "PS") is the de-facto - standard in the &UNIX; world for printing files. It was - developed by Adobe and licensed to printer manufacturers - and software companies. - - As the &PostScript; specifications were - published by Adobe, there are also "Third Party" implementations - of &PostScript; generating and &PostScript; interpreting software - available (one of the best-known in the Free software world - being Ghostscript, a powerful PS-interpreter). - - ESC/P - &HP;/GL - PCL - PPD - - - - - PPD - Abbreviation for PostScript - Printer Description; - PPDs are ASCII files storing all information about the special - capabilities of a printer, plus definitions of the (PostScript- - or PJL-) commands to call on a certain capability (like print - duplexing). - - - As the explanation of the acronym reveals, PPDs were originally - only used for &PostScript; printers. ∪︀ has extended the - PPD concept to all types of printers. - - - PPDs for &PostScript; printers are provided by the printer - vendors. They can be used with ∪︀ and TDEPrint to have access - to the full features of any &PostScript; printer. The TDEPrint Team - recommends using a PPD originally intended for use with - &Microsoft; Windows NT. - - - PPDs for non-PostScript printers need a - companion "filter" to process the &PostScript; print files into - a format digestible for the non-PostScript target device. Those - PPD/filter combos are not (yet) available from the vendors. After - the initiative by the ∪︀ developers to utilize PPDs, the Free - Software community was creative enough to quickly come up with - support for most of the currently used printer models, through - PPDs and classical Ghostscript filters. But note: the printout - quality varies from "hi-quality photographic output" (using - Gimp-Print with most Epson inkjets) to "hardly readable" (using - Foomatic-enabled Ghostscript filters for models rated as - "paperweight" in the Linuxprinting.org database). - - ∪︀ - Linuxprinting.org - &PostScript; - - - - - PPD-O-Matic - PPD-O-Matic is a set of Perl scripts that run on the Linuxprinting.org - web server and can be used online to generate PPDs for any printer that is known - to print with Ghostscript. - - - These PPDs can be hooked up to ∪︀/TDEPrint, as well as - used inside PPD-aware applications like StarOffice to determine all different - parameters of your printjobs. It is now recommended, in most cases, to - use "PPD-O-Matic" instead of the older ∪︀-O-Matic. - - - To generate a PPD, go to the printer - database, select your printer model, follow - the link to show the available Ghostscript filters for that printer, select - one, click "generate" and finally save the file to your local system. - Be sure to read the instructions. Make sure that your local system - does indeed have Ghostscript and the filter, which you chose - before generating the PPD, installed. - - &PostScript; - ∪︀-O-Matic - Linuxprinting.org - Foomatic - - - - - printcap - In BSD-style print systems, the "printcap" file holds - the configuration information; the printing daemon reads this file - to determine which printers are available, what filters are to be - user for each, where the spooling folder is located, - if there are banner pages to be used, and so on... - Some applications also depend on read access to the printcap - file, to obtain the names of available printers. - BSD-style printing - - - - - - Printer-MIB - Abbreviation for - Printer-Management - Information Base; the - Printer-MIB defines a set of parameters that are to be - stored inside the printer for access - through the network. This is useful if many (in some cases, literally - thousands) network printers are managed centrally - with the help of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). - PWG - SNMP - - - - - PWG - Abbreviation for - Printer Working - Group; the PWG is a loose grouping of - representatives of the printer industry that has, in the past - years, developed different standards - in relation to network printing. These were later accepted by the - IETF as RFC standards, like the "Printer-MIB" and the IPP. - &PostScript; - IPP - Printer-MIB - SNMP - - - - - print:/ TDEIO Slave - You can use a syntax of "print:/..." to get quick access - to TDEPrint resources. Typing "print:/manager" as a Konqueror URL - address gives administrative access to TDEPrint. Konqueror uses &tde;'s - famous "KParts" technology to achieve that. - IO Slave - KParts - - - - - - Printer Database - . - Linuxprinting Database - - - - - Qt∪︀ - Qt∪︀ and KUPS were the predecessors of TDEPrint; they are now - deprecated and no longer maintained. What was good in qtcups is all inherited - by "kprinter", the new TDE print dialog (which is much improved over qtcups); - what you liked about kups is now all in the TDEPrint Manager (accessible - via the Trinity Control Center or via the URL "print:/manager" from Konqueror) -- - with more functionality and less bugs... Its former developer, Michael Goffioul, is now - the developer of TDEPrint -- mdash; a very nice and productive guy and quick bug fixer... - - kprinter - - - - - Raster Image - Every picture on a physical medium - is composed of a pattern of discrete dots in different colors and (maybe) - sizes. This is called a "raster image". - - - This is as opposed to a "vector image" - where the graphic is described in terms of continuous curves, shades, - forms and filled areas, represented by mathematical formula. Vector images - normally have a smaller file size and may be scaled in size - without any loss of information and quality --- but they cannot be - output directly, but always have to be "rendered" or "rasterized" - first to the given resolution that the output device is capable of... - - - - The rasterization is done by a Raster Image Processor (RIP, - often the Ghostscript software) or some other filtering - instance. - Pixel - Ghostscript - &PostScript; - Filter - RIP - - - - - RIP - Abbreviation for - Raster Image - Process(or); if used in the context of - printing, "RIP" means a hardware or software - instance that converts &PostScript; (or other print formats - that are represented in one of the non-Raster PDLs) into a - raster image format in such a way that it is acceptable - for the "marking engine" of the printer. - - - &PostScript; printers - contain their own PostScript-RIPs. A RIP may or may not be located - inside a printer. - - - For many &UNIX; systems, Ghostscript is the package that provides - a "RIP in software", running on the host computer, and pre-digesting - the &PostScript; or other data to become ready to be sent to the - printing device (hence you may perceive a "grain of truth" in the - slogan "Ghostscript turns your printer into a &PostScript; - machine", which of course is not correct in the true sense of the - meaning). - Filter - Ghostscript - &PostScript; - PDL - Raster - - - - - - RLPR (Remote LPR) - Abbreviation for Remote - Line Printing - Request; this is a BSD-style printing system, - that needs no root privileges to be installed, and no "printcap" to - work: all parameters may be specified on the command - line. - - - RLPR comes in handy for many laptop users who are - working in frequently changing environments. This is because it - may be installed concurrently with every other printing - sub system, and allows a very flexible and quick - way to install a printer for direct access via LPR/LPD. - - - TDEPrint - has an "Add Printer Wizard" to make RLPR usage even easier. - The kprinter command allows switching to RLPR "on - the fly" at any time. - TDEPrint - kprinter - printcap - - - - - - SNMP - Abbreviation for Simple - Network Management - Protocol; SNMP is widely used to control - all types of network node (Hosts, Routers, Switches, Gateways, - Printers...) remotely. - PWG - Printer-MIB - - - - - SSL(3) encryption - Abbreviation for Secure - Socket Layer; - SSL is a proprietary encryption method for data - transfer over HTTP that was developed by Netscape. It is now being - replaced by an IETF standard named TLS. - - TLS - - - - - - SPOOLing - Abbreviation for Synchronous - Peripheral Operations - OnLine; - SPOOLing enables printing applications - (and users) to continue their work - as the job is being taken care of by a system daemon, - which stores the file at a temporary location until the printer is ready - to print. - Daemon - - - - - - TLS encryption - Abbreviation for Transport - Layer Security; - TLS is an encryption standard for - data transfered over HTTP 1.1; it is defined in RFC 2246; - although based on the former SSL development - (from Netscape) it is not fully compatible with it. - - SSL(3) - - - - - - System V-style printing - This is the second flavor of traditional &UNIX; - printing (as opposed to BSD-style printing). It uses - a different command set (lp, lpadmin,...) to BSD, - but is not fundamentally different from it. However, the - gap between the two is big enough to make the two - incompatible, so that a BSD-client cannot simply print - to a System V style print server without additional - tweaking... IPP is supposed to resolve this weakness - and more. - - BSD-style printing - IPP - - - - - TurboPrint - Shareware software providing photo quality printing for many - inkjet printers. It is useful if you are unable to find a driver for your - printer and may be hooked into either a traditional Ghostscript system - or a modern ∪︀ system. - Gimp-Print - - - - - XPP - Abbreviation for X - Printing Panel; - XPP was the first Free - graphical print command for ∪︀, written by Till Kamppeter, - and in some ways a model for the "kprinter" utility in &tde;. - - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.1