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           **********************************************
           The updates here are scheduled for future 
           inclusion in:  rhs-printfilters-1.72
           **********************************************


(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.

=================================================================  
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.