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- 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.
- 21 April 2004: XPRINT branch landed on XORG trunk
The Xprint branch has been merged into the Xorg trunk
(the master sources of X11) - which means that the upcoming X11R6.7.1 release will contain all the fixes
and enhancements previously hosted in the XPRINT branch.
- 28 March 2004: Xprint version 009 released
Xprint version 009 has been released.
- 21 March 2004: Download area moved to SourceForge
The files in the download are have been moved to the SourceForge file distribution system
for better performance and mirroring. The downloads can now be found under
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50927,
the old download URLs remain valid for at least the next two months. Please update your bookmarks.
- 20 March 2004: Work on
XPRINT branch in Xorg CVS repository has been started
The work on the new tree based on a branch in the Xorg
(the master sources of X11) has ben started with the
creation of the XPRINT
branch. The branch will be populated soon and the next release will be cut from that tree...
- 1 March 2004: 009 release canidate 2 available
The 009 release canidate 2 builds of Xprint are now available, including various fixes since
the last trunk builds. If no bad things happens we can ship the final release on thursday...
The new builds
(i386 RPM,
i386 Linux tarball,
etc.)
made available are not a milestone release (yet).
Downloads can be found here...
- 16 February 2004: 009 release canidate 1 available
The 009 release canidate 1 builds of Xprint are now available, including various fixes since
the last trunk builds. If no bad things happens we can ship the final release on thursday...
The new builds
(i386 RPM,
i386 Linux tarball,
etc.)
made available are not a milestone release (yet).
Downloads can be found here...
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14 February 2004: Moving the Xprint project to freedesktop.org
We are going to to move the Xprint project - at least the server,
maintaince tools and related documentation to freedesktop.org.
xprint.mozdev.org remains the home for the Mozilla-related
projects such as the upcoming Mozilla XPI (sub-)project and other parts
- but the heavywheight stuff is going to be moved to xprint.freedesktop.org to
free some resources from mozdev.org's servers.
Xprint has become so popular that it has started to consume huge amounts of server resources
(network bandwidth, CPU time) - sometimes (e.g. when a new Mozilla
version was released) even bringing the servers near to a collapse.
We're moving now - incrementally - the development area to the new site.
Read full article.
- 14 January 2004: 009 gamma available
The 009 gamma builds of Xprint are now available, including various fixes since
the last trunk builds and TrueType/Opentype font support has now been enabled by default
for Solaris and AIX.
The new builds
(i386 RPM,
i386 Linux tarball,
etc.)
made available are not a milestone release (yet).
Downloads can be found here...
- 19 December 2003: 009 beta nightly builds available
Today we finished a new set of builds of the Xprint
009 trunk which adds various new features, including an all-new font download
engine for the PostScript DDX which can download TrueType/OpenType/PS Type42/PS Type 1
fonts to any PostScript Level 2/3 printer as smoothed+optimised PS Type1/3 outline data,
better support for CUPS, PDF output and support for the
XTT font API extensions.
The new builds
(i386 RPM,
i386 Linux tarball,
etc.)
made available are not a milestone release.
Downloads can be found here...
- 28 November 2003: New 009 trunk nightly builds available
Today we finished the a new set of experimental nightly builds of the Xprint
009 trunk which adds various new features, including an all-new font download
engine for the PostScript DDX which can download TrueType/OpenType/PS Type42/PS Type 1
fonts to any PostScript Level 2/3 printer as smoothed+optimised outline data,
better support for CUPS and PDF output.
The new builds
(i386 RPM,
i386 Linux tarball,
etc.)
made available are not a milestone release.
Downloads can be found here...
- 4 August 2003: FAQ converted to DocBook
The Xprint FAQ has been
converted
to DocBook/XML.
If you find any differences between the old plaintext FAQ
and the new DocBook/XML version please report it to bug 2050.
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11 July 2003: "Ancalagon" 009 prototype released
Today we finished the first builds of the new Xprint
"Ancalagon" 009
prototype which adds various new features, including an all-new font download
engine for the PostScript DDX which can download TrueType/OpenType/PS Type 1
fonts to any PostScript Level 2/3 printer as smoothed+optimised outline data.
The test builds
(i386 RPM,
i386 Linux tarball,
etc.)
made available are not a milestone release, however the feedback
from users will decide whether the new font download engine will be enabled
by default in the final 009 release or not.
Downloads can be found here...
- 7 July 2003: xprint.mozdev.org site services temporary offline
Due the recent attack
against the server which hosts xprint.mozdev.org various services
(including the bug database and the mailinglists) are offline this week.
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15 June 2003: xprint.mozdev.org downloads hit the 100000 barrier
Since the project creation (2 May 2002) the packages/tarballs offered by xprint.mozdev.org
were downloaded more than 100000 times:
| Package | Downloads |
| AIX binary tarballs | 1592 |
Solaris
(binary tarballs + GISWxprintglue/GISWxprint packages) | 12467 |
Linux x86
(binary tarballs + i386 RPM packages) | 40361 |
Sources
(source tarballs and source RPM packages) | 52854 |
| Total | 107274 |
Note that these statistics do not include the various vendor-specific package
versions from Debian,
Mandrake, etc.
nor source pulls via CVS.
- 12 May 2003: Xprint version 008 released
Xprint version 008 has been released.
- 2 May 2003: Happy Birthday, xprint.mozdev.org
xprint.mozdev.org turns one - the
project is now exactly one year old... :-)
- 12 April 2003: Release 008 branched and release canidates out
Release 008 was
branched
last Wednesday and today the release candidates for xprint.mozdev.org release 008 are out.
Happy testing...
- 3 April 2003: Added new PDF driver project
Added
a new project to create a PDF driver for Xprint.
- 27 February 2003: Added new project
GISWxprint
Added
a new project to provide an easy-to-install
Solaris package to make Xprint available for Mozilla/Eclipse/etc. on this platform
using the Xprt server build from
xprint.mozdev.org sources.
- 8 February 2003: xprint.mozdev.org server code now working on AIX
Starting with the work in
bug 3057
xprint.mozdev.org's server now works on the AIX/PPC platform ; tar.gz tarballs for AIX will follow soon...
- 24 January 2003: Added new project
GISWxprintglue
Added
a new
project to provide an easy-to-install
Solaris package to make Xprint available for Mozilla/Eclipse/etc. on this platform
by using the Solaris version of Xprt.
- 14 December 2002: FAQ and download area down from 9.30AM-2.00PM MET
The machine which hosts the FAQ and the download area will be down from 9.30AM-2.00PM
MET due maintaince on the powergrid in our lab.
- 4 December 2002: Xprint version 007 released
Xprint version 007 has been released.
- 26 November 2002: New page layout and new FAQ version
xprint.mozdev.org got an all-new page layout and a new version of the
Xprint FAQ
has been uploaded, too.
- 19 November 2002: Mozilla's Xprint module project page is "up"
The first raw version of Mozilla's Xprint module project page was uploaded today...
- 16 October 2002: 1st stage of TrueType font support added to Xprint
First stage of TrueType font support for Xprt has been added
to the 008 development (e.g. release 007 will not contain this feature)
trunk with
bug 1439.
This step added a generic TrueType rasterizer, providing TTF support for all
DDX(=drivers; incl. PostScript, PCL, Raster, etc.) in one step.
Visit the sample gallery to view the results... :)
- 22 September 2002: Debian ships
007 release package
Debian has released it's
Xprint package
(*.deb) based on the 007 release branch.
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21 August 2002:
007 release branch created
The release 007 branch
has been created
(e.g. 007 has not been released yet, but we are
close...).
Note that the release branch will take only bug fixes and no new features.
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