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cups-filters 1.11.6 released!



Hi,

I have released cups-filters 1.11.6 now, with the following changes:

        - pdftops: Do not default to simply "pdftops" when calling the
          Poppler pdftops utility, as the $PATH of CUPS when running
          filters/backends starts with /usr/lib/cups/filter/ and then
          pdftops would call itself (Bug #1380).

Changes of the 1.11.5 release:

	- cups-browsed: Fixed several typos in the documentation (Bug
	  #1378).
	- gstoraster, mupdftoraster, pdftops, sys5ippprinter: Use
	  execvp() and execvpe() to call programs so that the $PATH
	  environment variable gets used to find the programs (Bug
	  #1378).
	- build system: Several fixes, especially to make it work when
	  cross-compiling or using a build server (Bug #1378).
	- cups-browsed: Silenced a warning.
	- cups-browsed: For remote CUPS queues with a dot in their
	  name no local queue got created (Bug #1379).
	- pdftopdf: Do the page logging also for IPP Everywhere
	  printers which use the PWG Raster data format as the
	  ...toraster filters being the last filter then do not log.
	- gstoraster, pdftoraster: Let filters generate PWG Raster if
           the environment variable FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE is set to
           image/pwg-raster, make sure full-page bitmaps are generated
           in PWG_raster mode, and added mime conversion rules for
           direct PWG Raster output.
	- cups-browsed: Corrected checking of the PDLs of an IPP network
	  printer. Now PCL 5c/e printers (not HP inkjets) should get
	  recognized correctly.
	- texttopdf: Added missing NULL check to avoid a segfault when
	  texttopdf does not find a suitable (monospace TTF) font.
	- foomatic-rip: Replace old manpage macro calls from
	  foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20050114.
	- cups-browsed: Allow changing BrowseInterval and
	  BrowseTimeout via cups-browsed.conf, as it was formerly with
	  CUPS (Debian bug #794655).
	- pdftopdf: Count the actual output pages also if the
	  number-up option is not used, to correctly find out whether
	  we have an even or odd number of pages, even if the
	  page-ranges option is used. This is needed to correctly
	  decide whether for duplex printing a blank page has to be
	  added (Bug #1377).

Changes of the 1.11.4 release:

	- gstoraster: Allow Ghostscript to use the center-of-pixel
	  method instead of the PostScript-standard any-part-of-pixel
	  method when rendering filled paths. This improves the
	  graphics output quality of low-resolution printers like
	  label printers, for example to assure readability of bar
	  codes (Bug #1373).
	- cups-browsed: Fixes to avoid unneeded calls of
	  handle_cups_queues() and even infinite loops (Possible fix
	  for bug #1376). Also make sure that queues left over from
	  the previous cups-browsed session are integrated correctly.

These changes fix several issues with IPP Everywhere printers and also other bugs.

Please disconsider 1.11.5 and go straight to 1.11.6 as this release contains an important fix.

I would appreciate if you could upload this to Debian soon so that I can sync it into Ubuntu.

    Till


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