[Xprint] GISWxprint-sparc-2004-07-07-release_009_001 Prints too large

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Thomas Dodd wrote:

>
> When Xprint started PPD wasn't so big. And the configuration makes 
> sense, and the syntax is standard Xdefaults style.

Well, yes, this starts to make sense when you conisder that this is 
rather X-side of things.

> Support for PPDs would be a nice addition though.

Exactly.  Even more: it would solve lots of problems.

The Xdefaults style model configs will probably never be properly 
maintained by anyone (Xprint packagers, printer vendors, end users...)
They currently contain configs for only a miniscule amount of printers.
Using them at all requires manual printer->model mapping on each client 
system.
That mapping requires changes in a config file located in /usr.

At the same time, PPD info is already there, reachable through the CUPS 
API, and it's always current.
It is fully centralisable, that is, there can be a single 
organization-wide CUPS server, and all CUPS clients get the current PPD 
descriptors from that server along with printer lists. And the jobs will 
be submitted to that server's central spool.

It's just so much a pity that Xprint cannot use all those easily 
accessible goodies...

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