Releases

We initially release builds on the Linux x86 platform; Solaris, HP-UX and AIX ship with Xprint's server side by default, so you do not need to download or build your own Xprint server on these platforms. If the build you're looking for isn't here yet, DON'T PANIC.

Build Xprint yourself and donate the build to us. We'll put it on the download site for others to download. Read our source code docs for info how to build Xprint for your platform and email me if you want to contrbute on how to do this.

Xprint 0.9.001 - Released July 11, 2004

Downloads

Try these
	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 Solaris 2004-07-07-release_009_001 SPARC binary tarball 2004-07-07-release_009_001 source tarball

Linux

Solaris

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

Release notes:
- The default resolution was changed from 300 DPI to 600 DPI based on many many requests.
  The FAQ entry How do I change the default printer resolution ? explains how to reverse this or choose any other default resolution on demand.
- The longstanding bug has been fixed that the Xprint server was resetting itself, lossing changes to resources, font paths etc. One sideeffect is that changes to the underlying spooler are no longer be picked up automatically (or better: by accident).
  To solve this problem the new utility xprehashprinterlist was introduced which causes the Xprint server to re-read it's configuration files.
- This release supports TrueType/OpenType fonts.
- There are two new pseudo printers called xp_ps_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs and xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs which will send PostScript or PDF jobs to the /tmp/Xprintjobs/ directory based on the spec for the PSspooldir and PS2PDFspooldir-GS printer models. The Xprint FAQ contains details how to turn this feature on/off and how to customize it.
Mozilla/FireFox/ThunderBird-specific notes:
- Mozilla's Xprint module has it's own project pages at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/
- Mozilla does not need to be updated if you want to use a newer version of Xprint's server side (Mozilla's Xprint module is the client side of Xprint while these downloads contain the server side). Mozilla release 0.9.9 is sufficient to print using Xprint (Mozilla >= 1.0.1 (or Netscape >= 7) is recommended).
- MathML support: Place (or link) the MathML Type1 fonts directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and restart the Xprint server(s) (using /etc/init.d/xprint restart).
  Note that newer Mozilla build (Mozilla 1.0.1 and Netscape 7 are not affected) may have layout problems with printing MathML (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 155122).
- Mozilla's Xprint module is explicitly disabled in RedHat RPM builds (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 133534).
  Workarounds:
  - Use Mandrake's RPMs
  - Use the binary tarball distribution of mozilla.org
  - Build Mozilla from source
- FireFox 0.8: The official Linux/x86 release binaries for FireFox 0.8 were compiled with a broken compiler, resulting in the problem that various features including Xprint do not work.
  The problem was "fixed" in FireFox with bug 233497.
  Other builds should be unaffected as long they were not compiled with gcc's optimizer option -Os.

Xprint 0.9 - Released March 28, 2004

Downloads

Try these
	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 Solaris 2004-03-22-release_009 SPARC binary tarball 2004-03-22-release_009 source tarball

Linux

Solaris

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

Release notes:
- This release supports TrueType/OpenType fonts.
- There are two new pseudo printers called xp_ps_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs and xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs which will send PostScript or PDF jobs to the /tmp/Xprintjobs/ directory based on the spec for the PSspooldir and PS2PDFspooldir-GS printer models. The Xprint FAQ contains details how to turn this feature on/off and how to customize it.
Mozilla/FireFox/ThunderBird-specific notes:
- Mozilla's Xprint module has it's own project pages at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/
- Mozilla does not need to be updated if you want to use a newer version of Xprint's server side (Mozilla's Xprint module is the client side of Xprint while these downloads contain the server side). Mozilla release 0.9.9 is sufficient to print using Xprint (Mozilla >= 1.0.1 (or Netscape >= 7) is recommended).
- MathML support: Place (or link) the MathML Type1 fonts directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and restart the Xprint server(s) (using /etc/init.d/xprint restart).
  Note that newer Mozilla build (Mozilla 1.0.1 and Netscape 7 are not affected) may have layout problems with printing MathML (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 155122).
- Mozilla's Xprint module is explicitly disabled in RedHat RPM builds (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 133534).
  Workarounds:
  - Use Mandrake's RPMs
  - Use the binary tarball distribution of mozilla.org
  - Build Mozilla from source
- FireFox 0.8: The official Linux/x86 release binaries for FireFox 0.8 were compiled with a broken compiler, resulting in the problem that various features including Xprint do not work.
  The problem was "fixed" in FireFox with bug 233497.
  Other builds should be unaffected as long they were not compiled with gcc's optimizer option -Os.

Xprint 0.8 - Released May 12, 2003

Downloads

Try these
	Linux 2003-04-16-release_008 i386 binary RPM Linux 2003-04-16-release_008 source SRPM Linux 2003-04-16-release_008 i386 binary tarball AIX 4.x 2003-04-16-release_008 rs6000 binary tarball Solaris 2003-05-08-release_008 SPARC binary tarball 2003-05-08-release_008 source tarball

Linux

AIX

AIX 4.x 2003-04-16-release_008 rs6000 binary tarball

Solaris

2003-05-08-release_008 Solaris package GISWxprint (contains both config data and Xprint server build from xprint.mozdev.org sources)
2003-05-08-release_008 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 2003-05-08-release_008 SPARC binary tarball

Release notes:
- This release supports TrueType fonts.
- There is a new pseudo printer called spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs which will send PostScript jobs to the /tmp/Xprintjobs/ directory based on the spec for the PSspooldir printer model. The Xprint FAQ contains details how to turn this feature on/off and how to customize it.
Mozilla-specific notes:
- Mozilla's Xprint module has it's own project pages at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/
- Mozilla does not need to be updated if you want to use a newer version of Xprint's server side (Mozilla's Xprint module is the client side of Xprint while these downloads contain the server side). Mozilla release 0.9.9 is sufficient to print using Xprint (Mozilla >= 1.0.1 (or Netscape >= 7) is recommended).
- MathML support: Place (or link) the MathML Type1 fonts directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and restart the Xprint server(s) (using /etc/init.d/xprint restart).
  Note that newer Mozilla build (Mozilla 1.0.1 and Netscape 7 are not affected) may have layout problems with printing MathML (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 155122).
- Mozilla's Xprint module is explicitly disabled in RedHat RPM builds (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 133534).
  Workarounds:
  - Use Mandrake's RPMs
  - Use the binary tarball distribution of mozilla.org
  - Build Mozilla from source

Xprint 0.7 - Released December 4, 2002

Downloads

Try these
	Linux 2002-12-03-release_007 i386 binary RPM Linux 2002-12-03-release_007 source RPM 2002-12-03-release_007 source tarball

Linux

Linux 2002-12-03-release_007 i386 binary RPM If you don't understand what the other Linux x86 builds are, then get this build.
Debian package based on 2002-10-04 007 release branch (not updated to 2002-12-03 yet)

Release notes:

This release does not support TrueType fonts. TrueType font support is new in 008 - see the "download" or "source" pages how to get 008 trunk builds.

You can use Xprint even without a printer:
Edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/C/print/Xprinters and append the following lines to enable the preconfigured sample printer for the "PSspooldir" printer model (jobs for "PSspooldir"-based printers will be send to the /tmp/Xprintjobs/ directory):


              # Disable automatic lookup of printers

              Augment_Printer_List %none%

              # Enable preconfigured PSspooldir sample printer

              Printer spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs

Mozilla-specific notes:
- Mozilla's Xprint module has it's own project pages at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/
- Mozilla does not need to be updated if you want to use a newer version of Xprint's server side (Mozilla's Xprint module is the client side of Xprint while these downloads contain the server side). Mozilla release 0.9.9 is sufficient to print using Xprint (Mozilla >= 1.0.1 (or Netscape >= 7) is recommended).
- MathML support: Place (or link) the MathML Type1 fonts directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and restart the Xprint server(s) (using /etc/init.d/xprint restart).
  Note that newer Mozilla build (Mozilla 1.0.1 and Netscape 7 are not affected) may have layout problems with printing MathML (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 155122).
- Mozilla's Xprint module is explicitly disabled in RedHat RPM builds (see bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 133534).
  Workarounds:
  - Use Mandrake's RPMs
  - Use the binary tarball distribution of mozilla.org
  - Build Mozilla from source