Changeset 3282

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01/08/08 22:41:51 (16 years ago)
Author:
jerome
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Removed LPRng stuff.
Removed the boring list of supported Page Description Languages,
and links to pkpgcounter's homepage instead.
Clearly marks that CUPS 1.3.4 or higher will be required with PyKota 1.27

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    4747    output the job's size on its standard output. Changes to the user 
    4848    account are reported immediately. PyKota by default internally 
    49     uses the code from pkpgcounter which can handle 
    50     several Page Description Languages : DSC compliant and binary PostScript, 
    51     PDF, PCLXL (aka PCL6), PCL3/4/5, ESC/P2, DVI, TIFF, OpenDocument, 
    52     Zenographics ZjStream, Samsung QPDL,Samsung SPL1, Brother HBP, 
    53     ESC/PageS03, Hewlett-Packard LIDIL, and plain text. 
     49    uses the code from pkpgcounter which can handle a large number 
     50    of Page Description Languages, and can parse documents produced 
     51    either by GhostScript or by a number of native printer drivers. 
    5452    Of course this means you have to install pkpgcounter if you want to 
    5553    use the default PDL parser. 
     54    An up-to-date list of supported Page Description Languages and their 
     55    level of support is available from : 
     56       
     57      http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/ 
    5658     
    5759  - The 'ink' method consists in using pkpgcounter's code to compute   
     
    135137  You need to have the following tools installed on the CUPS Server : 
    136138   
    137     - CUPS (http://www.cups.org) 
     139    - CUPS (http://www.cups.org). PyKota v1.27 requires CUPS v1.3.4 or higher. 
    138140    - Python v2.3 or higher (http://www.python.org) 
    139141    - eGenix' mxDateTime Python extension (http://www.egenix.com) 
     
    438440        /etc/pykota/pykota.conf 
    439441 
    440   - LPRng Printing System : 
    441    
    442     IMPORTANT : This release of PyKota DOES NOT support LPRng anymore. 
    443      
    444     If you want to use PyKota with LPRng, you have to download 
    445     an earlier release of PyKota, up to and including 1.22HotFix1. 
    446          
    447442Now you can begin to populate the PyKota's database with printers, 
    448443users and groups :