README: Updated for PCLm support.
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printers and IPP printers to make them available locally.
From CUPS 1.6.0 on, this package is required for using printer
- drivers with CUPS under Linux. With CUPS 1.5.x and 1.4.x this
- package can be used optionally to switch over to PDF-based
- printing. In that case some filters are provided by both CUPS and
- this package. Then the filters of this package should be used.
-
- For compiling and using this package CUPS, libjpeg, libpng,
- libtiff, freetype, fontconfig, liblcms (liblcms2 recommended),
- libavahi-common, libavahi-client, libdbus, and glib are needed. It
- is highly recommended, especially if non-PDF printers are used, to
- have at least one of Ghostscript, Poppler, or MuPDF. To print
- banner pages Poppler is needed.
+ drivers (und also driverless printing) with CUPS under Linux. With
+ CUPS 1.5.x and 1.4.x this package can be used optionally to switch
+ over to PDF-based printing. In that case some filters are provided
+ by both CUPS and this package. Then the filters of this package
+ should be used.
+
+ For compiling and using this package CUPS, libqpdf, libjpeg,
+ libpng, libtiff, freetype, fontconfig, liblcms (liblcms2
+ recommended), libavahi-common, libavahi-client, libdbus, and glib
+ are needed. It is highly recommended, especially if non-PDF
+ printers are used, to have at least one of Ghostscript, Poppler,
+ or MuPDF. To print banner pages Poppler is needed.
The Poppler-based filters need a C++ compiler which supports C++11
and Poppler being built with the "./configure" options
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(if in the actually used Poppler version such options are
available). This is the case for most modern Linux distributions.
+ For PCLm output (used by Mopria and Wi-Fi Direct printers) QPDF of
+ at least version 7.0.0 is required.
+
+ For Apple Raster output (used by AirPrint printers) at least CUPS
+ 2.2.2 is required.
+
For Braille embosser support (see below) you will also need at
least liblouis, ImageMagick, and poppler-utils. Recommended is to
also have liblouisutdml, antiword, docx2txt for more sophisticated
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CUPS, this package, and Ghostscript contain some rudimentary
printer drivers and especially the filters needed for driverless
- printing (currently PWG Raster, Apple Raster, and PDF output
- formats, for AirPrint and IPP Everywhere printers), see
- http://www.openprinting.org/drivers/ for a more comprehensive set
- of printer drivers for Linux.
+ printing (currently PWG Raster, Apple Raster, PCLm, and PDF output
+ formats, for IPP Everywhere, AirPrint, Mopria, and Wi-Fi Direct
+ printers), see http://www.openprinting.org/drivers/ for a more
+ comprehensive set of printer drivers for Linux.
See
