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This page is a collection of useful patches and information for anyone interested in running or developing Xprint. Please send any comments on this page to the Xprint mailinglist (subscription required).  If you are also working on modifications to code or developing an application which uses Xprint, please let us know.  

Latest Xprint project news

• 07 May 2005: HTML versions of Xprint and DtPrint specs added
  Some of the Xprint specifications have been converted to HTML (using pdftohtml), including the CDE DtPrint, the Xprint client library and the Xprint protocol specs.
  If you find any errors in the converted files please report them to the Xprint mailing list.

• 09 February 2005: X.Org Foundation Releases X Window System X11R6.8.2
  The X.Org Foundation today announced X11R6.8.2 which includes a large number of Xprint-releated updates again (see Changelog), including updates to the Postscript print driver and to the Xprint infrastructure.

• 20 December 2004: services hosted on freedeskop.org (Bugzilla, CVS, etc.) restored again
  freedesktop.org, has finally restored all it's services, including the Xorg CVS repository and the bugzilla database.

• 15 November 2004: Bugzilla, CVS and other services hosted on freedeskop.org down
  freedesktop.org, which hosts the bugzilla for the X.org/Xprint project is currently down after the main server was being compromised. No data have been lost but it will take several days until all services (bugzilla, CVS, CVSweb, etc.) are available again.

• 9 September 2004: X11R6.8.0 has been released
  X11R6.8.0 has been released. Starting with this X.org release all the Xprint changes previously hosted in the seperate xprint.mozdev.org CVS have been merged into the main X.org CVS repository (which is now the officual source for Xprint again).
  The new release includes various new features, including Xprint support for various clients such as xedit, xman, print support for the Athena widget set (new XawPrintShell class) and many other features.

• 11 July 2004: Xprint version 009.001 released
  Xprint version 009.001 has been released.

• 2 May 2004: Happy Birthday, xprint.mozdev.org
  xprint.mozdev.org turns two - the project is now exactly two years old... :-)

• 24 April 2004: OpenGL support added to Xprint
  Support for the GLX extensions has been added to the Xprint server in the Xorg trunk, enabling OpenGL applications to print via Xprint. To demonstrate the new feature the GLX demo application glxgears has been extended to support both video and printer output.

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• 009.001 release (includes TrueType/OpenType font and PDF output support)
  
  • Linux 2004-07-07-release_009_001 i386 binary RPM
  • Linux 2004-07-07-release_009_001 source SRPM
  • Linux 2004-07-07-release_009_001 i386 binary tarball
  • 2004-07-07-release_009_001 Solaris package GISWxprint (contains both config data and Xprint server build from xprint.mozdev.org sources)
  • 2004-07-07-release_009_001 Solaris package GISWxprintglue (contains only config data and reuses Solaris's native Xprint server)
    WARNING: Please install the required set of Solaris patches before instaling the package, otherwise you may see problems as described in the FAQ and bug 3353.
  • Solaris 2004-07-07-release_009_001 SPARC binary tarball
  • 2004-07-07-release_009_001 source tarball
• 009 release (includes TrueType/OpenType font and PDF output support)
  
  • Linux 2004-03-22-release_009 i386 binary RPM
  • Linux 2004-03-22-release_009 source SRPM
  • Linux 2004-03-22-release_009 i386 binary tarball
  • 2004-03-22-release_009 Solaris package GISWxprint (contains both config data and Xprint server build from xprint.mozdev.org sources)
  • 2004-03-22-release_009 Solaris package GISWxprintglue (contains only config data and reuses Solaris's native Xprint server)
    WARNING: Please install the required set of Solaris patches before instaling the package, otherwise you may see problems as described in the FAQ and bug 3353.
  • Solaris 2004-03-22-release_009 SPARC binary tarball
  • 2004-03-22-release_009 source tarball
• Older releases can be found on the SourceForge download page.
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