Changeset 3282 for pykota/trunk

Timestamp:

01/08/08 22:41:51 (17 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

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

Files:

• pykota/trunk/README (modified) (3 diffs)

pykota/trunk/README

@@ -47 +47 @@
     output the job's size on its standard output. Changes to the user
     account are reported immediately. PyKota by default internally
-    uses the code from pkpgcounter which can handle
-    several Page Description Languages : DSC compliant and binary PostScript,
-    PDF, PCLXL (aka PCL6), PCL3/4/5, ESC/P2, DVI, TIFF, OpenDocument,
-    Zenographics ZjStream, Samsung QPDL,Samsung SPL1, Brother HBP,
-    ESC/PageS03, Hewlett-Packard LIDIL, and plain text.
+    uses the code from pkpgcounter which can handle a large number
+    of Page Description Languages, and can parse documents produced
+    either by GhostScript or by a number of native printer drivers.
     Of course this means you have to install pkpgcounter if you want to
     use the default PDL parser.
+    An up-to-date list of supported Page Description Languages and their
+    level of support is available from :
+      
+      http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/
     
   - The 'ink' method consists in using pkpgcounter's code to compute  
@@ -135 +137 @@
   You need to have the following tools installed on the CUPS Server :
   
-    - CUPS (http://www.cups.org)
+    - CUPS (http://www.cups.org). PyKota v1.27 requires CUPS v1.3.4 or higher.
     - Python v2.3 or higher (http://www.python.org)
     - eGenix' mxDateTime Python extension (http://www.egenix.com)
@@ -438 +440 @@
         /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
 
-  - LPRng Printing System :
-  
-    IMPORTANT : This release of PyKota DOES NOT support LPRng anymore.
-    
-    If you want to use PyKota with LPRng, you have to download
-    an earlier release of PyKota, up to and including 1.22HotFix1.
-        
 Now you can begin to populate the PyKota's database with printers,
 users and groups :