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The updates here are scheduled for future
inclusion in: rhs-printfilters-1.72
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(1) If you have a printtool < 3.44 system (Red Hat 6.1 or earlier,
Mandrake 7.0 or earlier) just get the updated RPMS
rhs-printfilters-1.57-4ppa4.i386.rpm (for Red Hat)
rhs-printfilters-1.58-4ppa5mdk.i386.rpm (for Mandrake)
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa .
(For older Red Hat or Mandrake systems, you may need to rebuild the
source RPMs.) These RPMS already incorporate the changes described here,
so just install the appropriate one.
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(2) If you have printtool 3.44 or greater, but rhs-printfilters >= 1.61 and
< 1.72 (Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.1) you may wish to manually update the
files
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/printerdb
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ppaprint
as described here. This will provide improved functionality
of pnm2ppa configuration using printtool.
(3) Future releases of Red Hat or Mandrake will probably include
rhs-printfilters >= 1.72, so these changes will already be made.
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Instructions. (Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.1)
(a) replace /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ppaprint .
(as root:)
cd /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters
copy ppaprint-latest and printerdb-ppa to this directory, if necessary.
(if you installed pnm2ppa-1.0 from a RPM they should be there already).
mv ppaprint ppaprint-old
mv ppaprint-latest ppaprint
chmod 0755 ppaprint
(b) update printerdb.
Save your current printerdb:
cp printerdb printerdb-saved
Now edit printerdb to replace the PPA printer entries with the
updated ones from printerdb-ppa. Use your favorite editor to cut
out the older PPA printer entries from printerdb, and paste in the contents
of printerdb-ppa in their place.
**TIP: for this to work, the PPA Printer entries in your old printerdb must
say "GSDriver: ppa" and *NOT* "GSDriver: pnmraw" (which is an older
printerdb style meant for printtool < 3.44). "ppa" is not a true
GS driver name, but a dummy device name added to the list of available
drivers by printtool >= 3.44 after it has detected that pnm2ppa is
installed.
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Note that these manually-made changes may be lost whenever the
rhs-printfilters rpm is updated using the rpm utility.
Eventually, they will be incorporated in newer "official" releases of
rhs-printfilters-1.72 or above, as they are released.