HELP WANTED: kdeprint with GNUlpr

[James Richard Tyrer]

General additional comments.

The LPR and LPRng is supposed to be in the same module.  So, this isn't an GNUlpr only 
effort.  But, I was going to see if I could get GNUlpr working first.  I will reconsider this.

I originally rejected LPRng because it appeared to be a RedHat project and I couldn't get 
it to work with my system.  However, now RedHat has dropped it -- and I assumed that it 
too would be dead.  But, I will look at it.

I have problems with CUPS: It is semi-proprietary and it won't print PostScript data that 
doesn't have the fonts embedded.  This was simple to fix in GNUlpr -- a few lines added to 
a script.  Although Craig Drummond says that he has fixed this with CUPS if you use 
FooMatic.  We are free to fork LPR but we can't really change CUPS.

GNUlpr does have support for PPD files and this could be integrated into KDE.  I don't use 
FooMatic because it isn't necessary unless you use CUPS (where it is used to replace the 
proprietary printer drivers).  If there is something that FooMatic can provide to LPR 
based print systems, someone please educate me.

So, I will have a look at the current LPRng project, install it and consider if it would 
be better to simply use it and work on getting it to work first.

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JRT