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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:41:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/40488: CUPS now relies on a special version of Ghostscript for printing on non-PS printers
Message-ID:  <200207121541.g6CFf3KV086961@www.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         40488
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       CUPS now relies on a special version of Ghostscript for printing on non-PS printers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 12 08:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kirk Strauser
>Release:        4.6-STABLE
>Organization:
The Strauser Group
>Environment:
FreeBSD kanga.honeypot.net 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Sun Jul  7 20:58:28 CDT 2002     root@kanga.honeypot.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HONEYPOT_KANGA  i386

>Description:
As of version 1.1.15, the CUPS team has moved the 'pstoraster' out of "CUPS proper" and into their own version of Ghostscript (see http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.html for details).  The practical upshot is that users with non-Postscript printers will not be able to print on FreeBSD CUPS servers until the issue is somehow resolved.
>How-To-Repeat:
Upgrade to cups-* version 1.1.15.
>Fix:
Port "ESP Postscript" to FreeBSD, although I don't know how that's going to effect programs that rely on GNU Ghostscript, or what the differences are between the two.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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