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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY cups-filters-download-http
8 "https://www.openprinting.org/download/cups-filters/cups-filters-&cups-filters-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY cups-filters-download-ftp " ">
10 <!ENTITY cups-filters-md5sum "cdf101d2c0ad6b9fe499395cda3e99c6">
11 <!ENTITY cups-filters-size "1.4 MB">
12 <!ENTITY cups-filters-buildsize "42 MB (with tests), 15MB installed">
13 <!ENTITY cups-filters-time "0.4 SBU (with tests)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="cups-filters" xreflabel="cups-filters-&cups-filters-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="cups-filters.html"?>
18
19 <sect1info>
20 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
21 <date>$Date$</date>
22 </sect1info>
23
24 <title>cups-filters-&cups-filters-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="cups-filters">
27 <primary sortas="a-cups-filters">cups-filters</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to CUPS Filters</title>
32
33 <para>
34 The <application>CUPS Filters</application> package contains backends,
35 filters and other software that was once part of the core
36 <application>CUPS</application> distribution but is no longer
37 maintained by Apple Inc.
38 </para>
39
40 &lfs83_checked;
41
42 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
43 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
44 <listitem>
45 <para>
46 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&cups-filters-download-http;"/>
47 </para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>
51 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&cups-filters-download-ftp;"/>
52 </para>
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>
56 Download MD5 sum: &cups-filters-md5sum;
57 </para>
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>
61 Download size: &cups-filters-size;
62 </para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>
66 Estimated disk space required: &cups-filters-buildsize;
67 </para>
68 </listitem>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>
71 Estimated build time: &cups-filters-time;
72 </para>
73 </listitem>
74 </itemizedlist>
75
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">CUPS Filters Dependencies</bridgehead>
77
78 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
79 <para role="required">
80 <xref linkend="cups"/>,
81 <xref linkend="glib2"/>,
82 <xref linkend="gs"/>,
83 <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
84 <xref linkend="poppler"/>, and
85 <xref linkend="qpdf"/>
86 </para>
87
88 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
89 <para role="recommended">
90 <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
91 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
92 <xref linkend="libtiff"/> and
93 <xref linkend="mupdf"/> (mutool),
94 </para>
95
96 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
97 <para role="optional">
98 <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
99 <xref linkend="dejavu-fonts"/> (required for the tests),
100 <xref linkend="ijs"/>,
101 <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
102 <xref linkend="php"/> (use of this might be broken),
103 <ulink url="http://liblouis.org/">Liblouis (Braille)</ulink>, and
104 <ulink url="http://liblouis.org/">Liblouisutdml (Braille)</ulink>
105 </para>
106
107 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional printer drivers (runtime)</bridgehead>
108 <para role="optional">
109 <xref role="runtime" linkend="gutenprint"/> (for supported printers),
110 or other printer drivers, such as <ulink role="runtime"
111 url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/">hplip</ulink>
112 </para>
113
114 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
115 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/cups-filters"/>
116 </para>
117 </sect2>
118
119 <sect2 role="installation">
120 <title>Installation of CUPS Filters</title>
121
122 <para revision="systemd">
123 First, fix the systemd unit file to work with
124 <application>CUPS</application> 2.0 and later:
125 </para>
126
127<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>sed -i "s:cups.service:org.cups.cupsd.service:g" utils/cups-browsed.service</userinput></screen>
128
129 <para>
130 Install <application>CUPS Filters</application> by running the following
131 commands:
132 </para>
133
134<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
135 --sysconfdir=/etc \
136 --localstatedir=/var \
137 --without-rcdir \
138 --disable-static \
139 --disable-avahi \
140 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/cups-filters-&cups-filters-version; &amp;&amp;
141make</userinput></screen>
142
143<!-- The test suite still bombs out for me. I'll leave the instructions for it
144 here though. I didn't have the Dejavu font installed, but used one of the
145 ones installed by X.
146 Version 1.16.0: test worked for me with "make check >testlog 2>&1",
147 that is, the other way around. I have DejaVu fonts. Pierre L
148 With 1.17.2 (and DejaVu) the test output is clean, no need for a log. Ken
149
150 Tests are clean for version 1.21.0 (and version 1.21.5): - Bruce
151 # TOTAL: 6
152 # PASS: 6
153 real 0m2.504s -->
154
155 <para>
156 To test the results, issue:
157 <!--<command>make check &gt;testlog 2&gt;&amp;1</command>.-->
158 <command>make check</command>. DejaVu fonts
159 are needed for the tests.
160 </para>
161
162 <para>
163 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
164 </para>
165
166<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
167
168 <para revision="systemd">
169 Install the systemd unit by running the following command as the
170 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
171 </para>
172
173<screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>install -v -m644 utils/cups-browsed.service /lib/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service</userinput></screen>
174
175 </sect2>
176
177 <sect2 role="commands">
178 <title>Command Explanations</title>
179<!-- please comment this if no patches are currently needed -->
180<!--<para>
181 <parameter>patch -Np1 -i ../cups-filters-&cups-filters-version;-poppler71-1.patch</parameter>:
182 Conditionally apply changes for recent versions of poppler.
183 </para>
184 Poppler-0.72.0, cups-filters-1.21.5 - no longer needed.-->
185 <para>
186 <parameter>--disable-avahi</parameter>: This switch is needed
187 if the optional <xref linkend="avahi"/> is not installed. Remove
188 it if avahi is installed and you need network printer discovery
189 capabilities.
190 </para>
191
192 <para>
193 <parameter>--without-rcdir</parameter>: This switch disables
194 installation of the bundled bootscript which is not compatible
195 with BLFS.
196 </para>
197
198<!-- Those are hard dependencies now
199 <para>
200 <parameter>- -with-gs-path=/usr/bin/gs</parameter>: This switch
201 defines the path to the <application>GhostScript</application>
202 binary in case <xref linkend="gs"/> is not installed at build time.
203 </para>
204
205 <para>
206 <parameter>- -with-pdftops-path=/usr/bin/gs</parameter>: This switch
207 defines the path to the <application>GhostScript</application>
208 binary in case <xref linkend="gs"/> is not installed at build time.
209 </para>
210-->
211
212 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
213 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
214
215 <para>
216 <option>--enable-ijs</option>: This switch will allow the pdftoijs
217 filter, for sending PDFs to an HP InkJet Server, to be built.
218 </para>
219
220<!--<para>
221 <command>make check 2&gt;&amp;1 &gt;testlog</command>: The testsuite
222 dumps a stream of bytes into the input buffer after it finishes. Sending
223 the output to a file keeps the history usable, but some debug information
224 will still appear on the screen.
225 </para>-->
226
227<!-- option seems to be obsolete - configure doesn't pick it up
228 <para>
229 <option>- -with-test-path=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></option>: If you wish to run the tests, but
230 you do not have the default
231 <filename>/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf</filename> use this switch
232 to specify where <filename>DejaVuSans.ttf</filename> (or perhaps some other
233 text TTF font - untested) is located.
234 </para>
235-->
236
237 </sect2>
238
239<!-- TODO: Write a bootscript for cups-browsed -->
240
241 <sect2 role="configuration" revision="systemd">
242 <title>Configuring CUPS Filters</title>
243
244 <sect3 id="cups-filters-init">
245 <title>Systemd Units</title>
246
247 <para>
248 To start the <command>cups-browsed</command> daemon at boot, enable
249 the previously installed systemd unit by running the following command
250 as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
251 </para>
252
253 <indexterm zone="cups-filters cups-filters-init">
254 <primary sortas="f-cups-browsed">cups-browsed</primary>
255 </indexterm>
256
257<screen role="root"><userinput>systemctl enable cups-browsed</userinput></screen>
258
259 </sect3>
260
261 </sect2>
262
263 <sect2 role="content">
264 <title>Contents</title>
265
266 <segmentedlist>
267 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
268 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
269 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
270
271 <seglistitem>
272 <seg>
273 cups-browsed, driverless (link), foomatic-rip (link) and ttfread
274 </seg>
275 <seg>
276 libcupsfilters.so and libfontembed.so
277 </seg>
278 <seg>
279 /usr/include/{cupsfilters,fontembed},
280 /usr/lib/cups/driver,
281 /usr/share/cups/{braille,charsets},
282 /usr/share/doc/cups-filters-&cups-filters-version; and
283 /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters
284 </seg>
285 </seglistitem>
286 </segmentedlist>
287
288 <variablelist>
289 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
290 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
291 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
292
293 <varlistentry id="cups-browsed">
294 <term><command>cups-browsed</command></term>
295 <listitem>
296 <para>
297 is a daemon for browsing the Bonjour and CUPS broadcasts of shared,
298 remote CUPS printers.
299 </para>
300 <indexterm zone="cups-filters cups-browsed">
301 <primary sortas="b-cups-browsed">cups-browsed</primary>
302 </indexterm>
303 </listitem>
304 </varlistentry>
305
306 <varlistentry id="foomatic-rip">
307 <term><command>foomatic-rip</command></term>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>
310 is a universal print filter/RIP wrapper which can be used as CUPS
311 filter or stand-alone for spooler-less, direct printing.
312 </para>
313 <indexterm zone="cups-filters foomatic-rip">
314 <primary sortas="b-foomatic-rip">foomatic-rip</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="libcupsfilters">
320 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcupsfilters.so</filename></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>
323 contains <application>CUPS Filters</application> API functions.
324 </para>
325 <indexterm zone="cups-filters libcupsfilters">
326 <primary sortas="c-libcupsfilters">libcupsfilters.so</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 </variablelist>
332
333 </sect2>
334
335</sect1>
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