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Ammend the "WinPrinters" comment in rev. 1.186 with a link to the

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ports/print/pnm2ppa port.  It's not much, but it's a ray of hope for
those stuck with "WinPrinters".

Submitted by:   Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
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Dima Dorfman 2001-05-04 05:11:18 +00:00
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor> <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $</pubdate> <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.188 2001/05/01 17:56:53 nik Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright> <copyright>
<year>1995</year> <year>1995</year>
@ -6085,12 +6085,25 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
Handbook entry on printing.</ulink></para> Handbook entry on printing.</ulink></para>
<para>Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of <para>Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of
printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> do not printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> are not
currently work on FreeBSD, and they may never work. If your natively supported by FreeBSD. If your printer does not work
printer does not work in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is a in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is probably a WinPrinter. Your
WinPrinter and won't work in FreeBSD. The only exception would only hope of getting one of these to work is to check if the
be if the manufacturer has released the driver information, and <filename>ports/print/pnm2ppa</filename> port supports it.
a driver has been added to the ghostscript port.</para> From <ulink
url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/print/pnm2ppa/pkg-descr">its
package description</ulink>:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>This software creates output using the PPA (printer
performance architecture) protocol. This protocol is used by
some HP "Windows-only" printers, including the HP Deskjet
820C series, the HP DeskJet 720 series, and the HP DeskJet
1000 series. [...]</para>
<para>WWW: <ulink
url="http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/">http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
</blockquote>
</answer> </answer>
</qandaentry> </qandaentry>

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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor> <corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.187 2001/04/28 07:17:19 dd Exp $</pubdate> <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.188 2001/05/01 17:56:53 nik Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright> <copyright>
<year>1995</year> <year>1995</year>
@ -6085,12 +6085,25 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
Handbook entry on printing.</ulink></para> Handbook entry on printing.</ulink></para>
<para>Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of <para>Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of
printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> do not printing. These so-called <quote>WinPrinters</quote> are not
currently work on FreeBSD, and they may never work. If your natively supported by FreeBSD. If your printer does not work
printer does not work in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is a in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is probably a WinPrinter. Your
WinPrinter and won't work in FreeBSD. The only exception would only hope of getting one of these to work is to check if the
be if the manufacturer has released the driver information, and <filename>ports/print/pnm2ppa</filename> port supports it.
a driver has been added to the ghostscript port.</para> From <ulink
url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/print/pnm2ppa/pkg-descr">its
package description</ulink>:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>This software creates output using the PPA (printer
performance architecture) protocol. This protocol is used by
some HP "Windows-only" printers, including the HP Deskjet
820C series, the HP DeskJet 720 series, and the HP DeskJet
1000 series. [...]</para>
<para>WWW: <ulink
url="http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/">http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
</blockquote>
</answer> </answer>
</qandaentry> </qandaentry>