[kde-doc-english]Printing glossary

[Thomas Diehl]

Hi,

I just got a mail from our German FAQ translator that he has to give up on 
completing his work because of the extremely specialized stuff in the 
printing glossary. Since PO translations have to be at 100% for the XML 
conversion this basically means that we either lose _all_ the work being done 
on FAQ translation or use an ugly workaround by copying the original strings 
over to the translations, making it a mix of German and English strings.

After looking at the printing glossary myself I would strongly suggest to move 
it out of the FAQ and keep it entirely separate. While I appreciate the 
wealth of information it provides and I personally find its contents very 
interesting (after all I'm in the printing business myself) it is certainly 
not what I would call "Frequently Asked Questions" like the others (ie: 
questions of ordinary users). See typical examples below.

Regards,

Thomas

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Easy Software Products

Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial 
software products towards the Free Software community; amongst them 
the initial version of <ulink url=\"http://gimp-print.sf.net/\">Gimp-
Print,</ulink> the <ulink url=\"http://www.easysw.com/epm/\">EPM 
software packaging</ulink> tool and <ulink url=\"http://www.easysw.
com/htmldoc/\">HTMLDOC</ulink> (used by the \"Linux Documentation 
Project\" to build the PDF versions of the HOWTOs) -- but most 
importantly: <ulink url=\"http://www.cups.org/\">&CUPS;</ulink> (the 
'Common &UNIX; Printing System'). ESP finance themselves by selling 
a commercial version of &CUPS;, called <ulink url=\"http://www.
easysw.com/\">ESP PrintPro,</ulink> that includes some professional 
enhancements.

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Foomatic

Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of different 
tools available from <ulink url=\"http://www.linuxprinting.org/
\">Linuxprinting.org</ulink> These tools aimed to make the usage of 
traditional Ghostscript and other print filters easier for users and 
extend the filters' capabilities by adding more command line 
switches or explain the driver's execution data. Foomatic's 
different incarnations are &CUPS;-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic, PDQ-O-Matic, 
LPD-O-Matic, PPR-O-Matic, MF-O-Matic and Direct-O-Matic. All of 
these allow the generation of appropriate printer configuration 
files online, by simply selection the suitable model and suggested 
(or alternate) driver for that machine. More recently, Foomatic 
gravitated towards becoming a \"meta-spooling\" system, that allows 
configuration of the underlying print subsystem through a unified 
set of commands (however, this is much more complicated than 
KDEPrint's &GUI; interface, which performs a similar task with 
regards to different print subsystems).




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