Understanding the export printer driver feature

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

Thanks for the replies, Michael and Till.

On Thursday 23 January 2003 13:38, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> have all the mentionned files, then the driver will be exported for
> Windows 9x and Windows NT-based machine. However, to gather all the files,

OK, great.

> you might need to download both version of the AdobePS. Note that
> everything should be available in the Universal PS Windows Driver
> available at
>
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3Dpdrv&platfor=
m=3Dwi
>n
>
> Executable are usually:
> - either self-exract ZIP archive, use unzip
> - or self-install CAB archive, use cabextract

OK, right. I've downloaded winsteng.exe which is the universtal PS Windows=
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driver. Unfortunately, it's so far evading all my attempts to get at its=20
files:

chris@galadriel:~/adobe$ file winsteng.exe
winsteng.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 GUI executable not relocatab=
le
chris@galadriel:~/adobe$ cabextract winsteng.exe
Extracting cabinet: winsteng.exe
winsteng.exe: not a Microsoft cabinet file
chris@galadriel:~/adobe$ unzip -L winsteng.exe
Archive:  winsteng.exe
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of winsteng.exe or
        winsteng.exe.zip, and cannot find winsteng.exe.ZIP, period.

> However, it is possible that the files within the archive are themselves
> compressed using whatever method (you know, files like ADOBEPS.DL_). The
> best is still to install the package on a Windows machine, and get the
> files from that installation.

Good idea.

> Note that future versions of CUPS should include their own PS driver
> for Windows, such that adobe files won't be needed anymore. Note also

Yes, that sounds useful. I  think CUPS 1.1.16 is the earliest version that=
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supports this, though my server is running CUPS 1.1.15 and hpijs 1.3 on=20
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though on FreeBSD yet since I'm still learning how it works, so I'm stuck=20
with 1.1.15 for the moment unfortunately ;)

> that I wrote a few month ago to adobe to ask them if I could provide
> a simple package containing all the required files, but never got an
> answer.

Hrm, maybe it would be more successful if we actually knew the name of=20
somebody sympathetic to Freehan Software inside the company, who could get=
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the necessary authorisation.

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