#	$Id: ANNOUNCE,v 1.4 1999/03/01 16:02:29 andreas Exp $

New features in 5.0.1
=====================

- Really make it unnecessary to have a file command that is able to
  read from a pipe.

- Added a russian print filter to the contrib section:
  Skliarouk Peter <penn@usa.net> wrote a filter for russian fonts
  for matrix 9-pin printers. It uses only ESC-consequences to 
  transform chars to theirs graphics representations.

New features in 5.0.0
=====================

Nice enhancements from Joachim Achtzehnter <joachim@kraut.bc.ca>:

- LPRng support. Hurray !!!

- Writes the first 8k of a print job into a tmp file for
  file type detection. This makes rewindstdin unnecessary
  for dvips as well as a special file command, that is able
  to read from stdin.

New features in 4.9.9 - patch-aa
================================

Uniprint support by Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net>

Sorry, I had no time to role a new apsfilter
release, it was only available via patch-aa in the FreeBSD ports
collection. It's always a good idea to look there for new patches.

	http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ports

New features in 4.9.9
=====================

Support recognition and printing of bzip2 compressed files

Upgrade and Bugfixes in 4.9.8
=============================

Support printing of PDF files !

Fix SETUP and mksymlinks script to fully support color printer.

Upgrade in 4.9.7
================

Do   4 Jun 1998 23:17:20 CEST	Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>

Added support for new HP DeskJet Driver in FreeBSD port of ghostscript 5.10
As a result apsfilters SETUP needs to know about the new printer drivers
See:
	http://bonk.ethz.ch/hp850/hp850.html
	http://bonk.ethz.ch/hp850/hp850-readme.1.3.html

If you want that for Linux as well, you have to patch the ghostscript
sources and to rebuild ghostscript 5.10. The URL's above contain
some (not complete) instructions how to do that.

For more hints you can browse through my diffs in the FreeBSD
ports collection.

Bugfixes in 4.9.6
=================

Fr  29 Mai 1998 00:04:35 CEST	Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
	*  From: Neil Hart <nhart@magma.ca>
	   get rid of SPOOLDIR /usr/spool for Linux installations ...
	   nearly all OS now use /var/spool ...
	*  apsfilter 4.9.6 released

Di  26 Mai 1998 21:10:11 CEST	Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>

	* From: Neil Hart <nhart@magma.ca>
	1. the script setup/compile refers to the directory a2ps-4.2-akl-new,
	   but the source is actually in the directory a2ps-4.2-akl
	2. the script setup/compile doesn't invoke Makefile.linux, but 
	   instead simply defaults to use the (non-functional) Makefile
	   in that directory
	3. the install_it script in the rewind-stdin directory has the 
	   line ''cp rewindstdin $BINDIR" commented out, so it never
	   actually installs the program

New Goodies in 4.9.5
====================

o Support direct printing of HTML documents
  using html2ps

New Goodies in 4.9.4
====================

o Absolutely new SETUP:
	- view your gs binaries compiled in drivers (gs -h)
	- browse through the devices.txt file
	- menue oriented
	- possibility to change print parameters and
	  PRINT a TEST page as long as you like
	- saves the current SETUP environment settings in ./SETUP.cfg
	  even if you have to terminate with ^C your settings are not lost !
	- SETUP reads old envireoment on starup if SETUP.cfg file is present
	- SETUP knows about all gs 5.10 drivers + 3rd party hp850 driver
	- enhanced serial printer setup in preparation
	- saves some interesting printer settings from SETUP
	  at the end of /etc/apsfilterrc, so printer is ready for use,
	  as tested !

o Bugfixes from SuSE developement team and other people.
o Supports FreeBSD ports collection
o Patches from FreeBSD ports collection included
o ghostscript 5.10 support
o hp850 driver support

o Still no support for LPRng !!!!
  Please use a standard (Berkeley) lpd package !!!!

Thomas Bueschgens
=================

Thomas Bueschgens isn't involved in the apsfilter developement
as co-author anymore. Don't try to send him mail.
Thomas, thanks for the good work in the past !

New Goodies in 4.9.3
====================

apsfilter 4.9.3 is apsfilter 4.9.1 for FreeBSD 2.1 in it's own
package format. This version is part of the FreeBSD installation
CD-Rom offered by Walnut Creeck.

Support for FreeBSD ports collection

Apsfilter is now more secure. You have to set INSECURE in /etc/apsfilterrc
as root first otherwise its not possible for users to use the 
custom files $HOME/.apsfilterrc.

There is a new switch DVIPS_RESOL_DorP. Some dvips versions use the P 
and some the D Option to change the printer resolution on the command line.
So if you have trouble printing TeX dvi files using dvips, check this one
first, please ! It defaults now to -D so it runs like a charm with
Thomas Essers teTeX-0.3 package ;-)

Nice Contribution:
okidisplay is for HPLJ compatible OKI 400ex. They have a programmable 
display. Martin Kraemer (Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de) has made a C Program,
that hacks the current print job into the display of the printer in the 
following form: <job>:<user>@<host>
So you can see, what print job currently is active ;-)

WHAT IS APSFILTER
=================

Do you have the German Unix Magazine UnixOpen February 1995 handy ?
Yes ?! Then read the article about apsfilter "Jetzt wird Druck gemacht".
					
APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD-like
printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work 
when printing different file types wether compressed or not !!!

Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported
by the free postscript emulator - under the terms of the GPL - 
"ghostscript" (gs), to print postscript files automatically !

With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 its now possible to print 
*compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!! 
The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system.

 o Supported packers:

	BZIP2, GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT

 o Supported file types:

	Postscript
	TeX DVI
	Ascii
	Data (PCL,...)
	GIFF
	TIFF
	Sun Rasterfiles
	FIG
	PNM (pbmplus)
	HTML
	PDF

Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly
=========================================================

	- FreeBSD 1.X
	- FreeBSD 2.X
	- FreeBSD 3.X
	- NetBSD
	- OpenBSD
	- SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4) (when using 
		another file command that can read from a pipe)
	- Many Linux Distributions
	  But please use the supported lpd print daemon, not LPRng ;-)

	- and surely all commercial Unix Systems, 
	  that run a BSD 4.X operating system

==========================================================
How to get apsfilter and related software
==========================================================

apsfilter:

http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/apsfilter-x.y.z.tar.gz

To use all of apsfilters features or capabilities some 
additional (on your system possibly non-standard) utilities 
need to be installed.

ghostscript510	- ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/gs510/
			ghostscript-5.10.tar.gz
			ghostscript-5.10gnu.tar.gz
			ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10.tar.gz
			ghostscript-fonts-other-5.10.tar.gz
bzip2		- http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz
jpeg		- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b
png		- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/libpng-1.0.1.tgz
zlib		- http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/zlib/
gs hp850 driver	- ftp://bonk.ethz.ch/gs-driver-distrib/hp850.zip
unzip		- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/src/unzip532.tar.gz
netpbm		- ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz
transfig	- ftp://crl.dec.com/pub/X11/contrib/applications/
			drawing_tools/transfig/transfig.3.2.tar.gz
xpm		- ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/xpm/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
teTeX		- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/
			pub/tex/ctan/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/
			teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz
			teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz
