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authorDarrell Anderson <[email protected]>2013-04-27 18:42:41 -0500
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Fix duplicate khelpcenter handbook files.
This resolves bug report 1344.
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-KDE_LANG = it
-SUBDIRS = $(AUTODIRS)
-KDE_DOCS = khelpcenter/glossary
-KDE_MANS = AUTO
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-<?xml version="1.0" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [
-<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
-<!ENTITY % Italian "INCLUDE">
-<!ENTITY glossary-tdeprinting SYSTEM "tdeprintingglossary.docbook">
-
-
-]>
-
-
-<glossary id="glossary"
->&glossary-tdeprinting; <glossdiv id="glossdiv-technologies">
- <title
->Tecnologie</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-ioslave">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->IO</acronym
-> Slave</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><acronym
->IO</acronym
-> Slaves permette alle applicazioni &kde; di accedere alle risorse remote nella stessa, facile maniera con la quale si accede alle risorse locali (rendendole <quote
->trasparenti alla rete</quote
->). Le risorse remote (&eg; file) possono essere memorizzate su condivisioni <acronym
->SMB</acronym
-> o simili.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-smb"
-><acronym
->SMB</acronym
-></glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-kio">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->KIO</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Il sistema &kde; di Input/Output che usa il cosiddetto <quote
-><acronym
->IO</acronym
-> Slaves</quote
->.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"
-><acronym
->IO</acronym
-> Slave</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-kparts">
- <glossterm
->KParts</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->KParts è una tecnologia di integrazione che consente alle applicazioni di &kde; di incorporare altre applicazioni &kde;. Il visualizzatore di testo usato da &konqueror; è un esempio di KPart.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror"
->&konqueror;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-ksycoca">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->KSycoca</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><acronym
->KSycoca</acronym
-> (&kde; <emphasis
->Sy</emphasis
->stem <emphasis
->Co</emphasis
->nfiguration <emphasis
->Ca</emphasis
->che) è una cache delle configurazioni di sistema, che permette, tra l'altro, un accesso rapido alle voci di menu.</para>
- <glossseealso
-otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"
-><application
->KBuildSycoca</application
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="glossdiv-xfree86">
- <title
->XFree86</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-antialiasing">
- <glossterm
->Antialiasing</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Se citato nell'ambito &kde;, antialiasing si riferisce spesso alla sfumatura dei tratti diagonali dei caratteri sullo schermo. Questo effetto viene reso possibile in &kde; grazie alle &Qt; versione 2.3.0 o superiore, usate insieme a XFree86 4.x.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qt"
->&Qt;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-xserver">
- <glossterm
->&X-Server;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->L'&X-Server; costituisce le fondamenta su cui è costruita ogni &GUI;, del tipo di &kde;. Gestisce le informazioni ricevute da mouse e tastiera, (sia da un host locale che da uno remoto) e fornisce le funzioni grafiche elementari per la costruzione di rettangoli e altre primitive.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
->&GUI;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="glossdiv-applications">
- <title
->Applicazioni</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-kbuildsycoca">
- <glossterm
-><application
->KBuildSycoca</application
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><application
->KBuildSycoca</application
-> è un programma a riga di comando, e rigenera il cosiddetto <acronym
->KSycoca</acronym
->. È utile nel caso si perda qualche modulo in &kcontrol;.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ksycoca"
-><acronym
->KSycoca</acronym
-></glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kcontrol"
->&kcontrol;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-kcontrol">
- <glossterm
->&kcontrol;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->È il nome del progetto e del file del Centro di controllo &kde;. &kcontrol; ti consente di personalizzare ogni opzione di configurazione di &kde;.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-kicker">
- <glossterm
->&kicker;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->&kicker; è sia il diminutivo che il nome di progetto del Pannello di &kde;.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-panel"
->Pannello</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-konqueror">
- <glossterm
->&konqueror;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->&konqueror; è una parte vitale del progetto &kde; e, nella sua versatilità, può essere usato sia come gestore dei file che come web browser, o come visualizzatore d'immagini. Puoi trovare una panoramica completa su &konqueror; in <ulink url="http://www.konqueror.org"
->www.konqueror.org</ulink
->. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-ksirc">
- <glossterm
->&ksirc;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->&ksirc; è il client <acronym
->IRC</acronym
-> fornito con &kde;. Puoi usare &ksirc; per comunicare con chiunque su una rete <acronym
->IRC</acronym
->.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-irc"
-><acronym
->IRC</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry
->
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="glossdiv-desktop-terminology">
- <title
->Terminologia del desktop</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-draganddrop">
- <glossterm
->Drag and Drop (Trascinamento)</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Si riferisce alla sostituzione di alcune azioni, quali quelle necessarie per copiare un file da un posto a un altro, con certi movimenti di mouse, &eg; fare clic su un'icona in una finestra di &konqueror;, spostare il mouse su un'altra finestra tenedo premuto il pulsante del mouse, quindi rilasciarlo (lasciando "cadere" l'oggetto) dove vuoi copiare il file.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror"
->&konqueror;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-gui">
- <glossterm
->&GUI;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviazione di <emphasis
->G</emphasis
->raphical <emphasis
->U</emphasis
->ser <emphasis
->I</emphasis
->nterface. Ogni ambiente desktop (come &kde;) è una &GUI;. La maggior parte delle &GUI; forniscono supporto per mouse e/o finestre per la gestione dei programmi.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-kde">
- <glossterm
->&kde;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviazione di <quote
->K Desktop Environment</quote
->, una delle migliori interfacce (&GUI;) grafiche per sistemi di tipo &UNIX;. Per maggiori dettagli visita il sito web <ulink url="http://www.kde.org"
->www.kde.org</ulink
->.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
->&GUI;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-gnome">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->GNOME</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para
-><emphasis
->G</emphasis
->NU <emphasis
->N</emphasis
->etwork <emphasis
->O</emphasis
->bject <emphasis
->M</emphasis
->odel <emphasis
->E</emphasis
->nvironment, una delle migliori &GUI; per &UNIX;.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
->&GUI;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-panel">
- <glossterm
->Pannello</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Si riferisce al pannello (detto anche <quote
->&kicker;</quote
->) che normalmente si trova sulla parte inferiore dello schermo.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kicker"
->&kicker;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-ripping">
- <glossterm
->ripping</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Il processo di lettura di dati audio da un &cdrom; e il loro salvataggio su disco fisso.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="kde-development">
- <title
->Sviluppo &kde;</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-qt">
- <glossterm
->&Qt;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->La &GUI; di &kde; ha come base la libreria &Qt;, che fornisce molti elementi grafici (i cosiddetti <quote
->Widget</quote
->), usati per costruire il desktop. Maggiori informazioni sulle &Qt; sono reperibili direttamente sul sito <ulink url="http://www.trolltech.com"
->www.trolltech.com</ulink
->.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
->&GUI;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-widget"
->Widget</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-i18n">
- <glossterm
->i18n</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Sta per <quote
->internazionalizzazione</quote
-> (in inglese i +18 caratteri + n). &kde; è disponibile in molte lingue, e diverse tecniche i18n rendono relativamente semplice la traduzione dell'interfaccia utente e della relativa documentazione di &kde; in queste lingue. Esaurienti informazioni sui procedimenti di internazionalizzazione sono disponibili su <ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org"
->i18n.kde.org</ulink
->.</para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
->&GUI;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-l10n">
- <glossterm
->l10n</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviazione di <quote
->localizzazione</quote
->, il processo di adattamento di un programma alle convenzioni locali. Ciò include, &eg; il formato data e ora in uso, la valuta, etc.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-i18n"
->i18n</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-widget">
- <glossterm
->Widget</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Elementi grafici quali barre di scorrimento, pulsanti o campi di inserimento usati da &kde; per costruire la &GUI;. </para>
-<glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde"
->&kde;</glossseealso
-> <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui"
->&GUI;</glossseealso
-> </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-cvs">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->CVS</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para
-><emphasis
->C</emphasis
->oncurrent <emphasis
->V</emphasis
->ersion <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->ystem. Il <acronym
->CVS</acronym
-> è un sistema molto efficiente per la gestione di versioni di file, che permette a più programmatori di lavorare con facilità su uno stesso progetto.Troverai informazioni sul modo di ottenere la versione più recente (in sviluppo) dei sorgenti &kde; via anonymous <acronym
->CVS</acronym
-> su <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html"
->http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html</ulink
->. Altre informazioni su <acronym
->CVS</acronym
-> sono a disposizione su <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org"
->www.cvshome.org</ulink
->. </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="glossdiv-misc">
- <title
->Varie ed eventuali</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-rfc">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->RFC</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><emphasis
->R</emphasis
->equest <emphasis
->F</emphasis
->or <emphasis
->C</emphasis
->omment (Richiesta di parere). Un modo comune per pubblicare progetti di nuovi protocolli o procedure, affinché vengano valutati dalla comunità Internet. Benché gli <acronym
->RFC</acronym
-> non siano vincolanti, dal momento che sono approvati dalla comunità molte applicazioni cercano di aderirvi il più possibile. Puoi reperire maggiori informazioni sugli <acronym
->RFC</acronym
-> nel sito <ulink url="http://www.rfc-editor.org"
->RFC Homepage</ulink
->.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry
->
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="glossdiv-protocols">
- <title
->Protocolli diversi</title>
- <glossentry id="gloss-smb">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->SMB</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><emphasis
->S</emphasis
->erver <emphasis
->M</emphasis
->essage <emphasis
->B</emphasis
->lock. Un protocollo di rete usato in ambienti &Microsoft; &Windows; per l'accesso al filesystem di altri computer. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"
-><acronym
->IO</acronym
-> Slave</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-irc">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->IRC</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><emphasis
->I</emphasis
->nternet <emphasis
->R</emphasis
->elay <emphasis
->C</emphasis
->hat. Un protocollo definito nel <acronym
->RFC</acronym
-> 1459, che definisce le specifiche per la messaggistica in tempo reale.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc"
-><acronym
->RFC</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-host">
- <glossterm
->host</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Questo termine può essere riferito sia al tuo file locale <filename
->/etc/hosts</filename
->(<systemitem class="systemname"
->ilmiocomputer</systemitem
->), sia al nome di un sito (<systemitem class="systemname"
->www.kde.org</systemitem
->) che ad un indirizzo IP (<systemitem
->192.168.0.10</systemitem
->). </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-</glossary>
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@@ -1,1879 +0,0 @@
-
-<!--
-<?xml version="1.0" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
-"customization/dtd/kdex.dtd" [
-<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
-<!ENTITY % Italian "INCLUDE">
-<!ENTITY glossary-tdeprinting SYSTEM "tdeprintingglossary.docbook">
-
-]>
-<glossary id="glossary">
--->
- <glossdiv id="glossdiv-printing">
- <title
->Stampa</title>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-acl">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->ACLs</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->A</emphasis
->ccess
- <emphasis
->C</emphasis
->ontrol <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ists;
- ACLs are used to check for the access by a given
- (authenticated) user. A first rough support for ACLs
- for printing is available from &CUPS;; this will be refined
- in future versions. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-appsocketprotocol">
- <glossterm
->AppSocket Protocol</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->AppSocket is a protocol for the transfer of
- print data, also frequently called "Direct TCP/IP Printing".
- &Hewlett-Packard; have used AppSocket to add a few minor
- extensions around it and were very successfull to re-name
- and market it under the brand "&HP; JetDirect"...</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">&HP; JetDirect Protocol</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-directtcpipprinting">Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-apsfilter">
- <glossterm
->APSfilter</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->APSfilter is used mainly in the context of "classical"
- &UNIX; printing (BSD-style LPD). It is a sophisticated shell script,
- disguising as an "all-in-one" filtering program. In reality,
- APSfilter calls "real filters" to do the jobs needed. It sends
- printjobs automatically through these other filters, based on an
- initial file-type analysis of the printfile.
- It is written and maintained by Andreas Klemm.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- It is
- similar to Magicfilter and uses mostly Ghostscript for file conversions.
- Some Linux-Distributions (like SuSE) use APSfilter, others
- Magicfilter (&eg; &RedHat;), some have both for preference selection
- (like has *BSD).
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- &CUPS; has <emphasis
->no</emphasis
-> need for APSfilter,
- as it runs its own file type recognition (based on &MIME; types)
- and applies its own filtering logic.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-magicfilter">Magicfilter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-mimetypes">&MIME;-Types</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printcap">printcap</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-authentication">
- <glossterm
->Authentication</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Proofing the identity of a certain person (maybe via username/password
- or by means of a certificate) is often called authentication. Once you are
- authenticated, you may or may not get access to a requested ressource,
- possibly based on ACLs.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-acl">ACLs</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-bidirectionalcommunication">
- <glossterm
->Bi-directional communication</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->In the context of printing, a server or a host may receive additional
- information sent back from the printer (status messages &etc;), either
- upon a query or unrequested. AppSocket ( = &HP; JetDirect), &CUPS; and IPP do
- support bi-directional communication, LPR/LPD and BSD-style printing
- do not...</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-appsocketprotocol">AppSocket Protocol</glossseealso
->
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-directtcpipprinting">Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossseealso
->
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">&HP; JetDirect</glossseealso
->
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">
- <glossterm
->BSD-style Printing</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Generic term for different variants of the traditional &UNIX;
- printing method. Its first version appeared in the early 70s on
- BSD &UNIX; and was formally described in <ulink url="http://www.rfc.net/rfc1179.html"
->RFC 1179</ulink
-> only as late
- as 1990.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- At the time when BSD "remote" printing was first designed, printers
- were serially or otherwise directly connected devices to a host
- (with the internet hardly consisting of more than 100 nodes!); printers
- used pre-punched, endless paperbands, fed through by a tractor
- mechanism, with simple rows of ASCII text mechanically hammered onto
- the medium, drawn from a cardboard beneath the table, giving it back
- as a zig-zag folded paper"snake". Remote printing consisted in
- neighouring host from the next room sending a file
- asking for printout.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- How technology has changed! Printers use cut-sheet media, they have
- built-in intelligence to compute the raster images of pages after pages
- that are sent to them using one of the powerfull page description
- languages (PDL), many are network nodes in their own right,
- with CPU, RAM, HardDisk and an own Operation System and
- they are hooked to a net with potentially millions of users...
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- It is a vast proof of the flexible &UNIX; concept for doing things,
- that it made "Line Printing" reliably work even under these modern
- conditions. But time has finally come now to go for something new
- -- the IPP.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD printing</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-cups">
- <glossterm
->&CUPS;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->C</emphasis
->ommon
- <emphasis
->U</emphasis
->NIX <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinting
- <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->ystem; &CUPS; is most modern &UNIX; and Linux
- printing system, providing also cross-platform printservices
- to &Microsoft; &Windows; and Apple MacOS clients. Based on IPP, it does
- away with all the pitfalls of old-style BSD printing,
- providing authentication, encryption and ACLs, plus many more
- features. At the same time it is backward-compatible enough
- to serve all legacy clients that are not yet up to IPP via
- LPR/LPD (BSD-style).
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- &CUPS; is able to control any &PostScript; printer by
- utilizing the vendor-supplied PPD (PostScript Printer
- Description file), targetted originally for &Microsoft; Windows NT
- printing only. &kde; Printing is most powerful if based on
- &CUPS;.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-acl">ACLs</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tdeprint">TDEPrint</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lprlpd">LPR/LPD</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPD</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-cupsfaq">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->&CUPS;-FAQ</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Presently only available in German (translation is on the way),
- the <ulink url="http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html"
->&CUPS;-FAQ</ulink
->
- is a valuable ressource to answer many question anyone new to
- &CUPS; printing might have at first.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tdeprinthandbook">TDEPrint Handbook</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-cups-o-matic">
- <glossterm
->&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->&CUPS;-O-Matic was the first "Third Party" plugin for
- the &CUPS; printing software. It is available on the <ulink
- url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html"
->Linuxprinting.org
- website</ulink
-> to provide an online PPD-generating service.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- Together with the companion <application
->cupsomatic</application
-> Perl-Script,
- that needs to be installed as an additional &CUPS; backend,
- it re-directs output from the native <application
->pstops</application
-> filter into
- a chain of suitable Ghostscript filters. Upon finishing, it
- gives the resulting data back to a &CUPS; "backend" for sending
- them onward to the printer.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Thusly, &CUPS;-O-Matic enables support for any printers known to
- have worked previously in a "classical" ghostscript environment,
- if no native &CUPS; support for that printer is in sight... &CUPS;-O-Matic
- is now replaced by the more capable PPD-O-Matic.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">PPD-O-Matic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-cupsomatic">
- <glossterm
->cupsomatic</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->The Perlscript <application
->cupsomatic</application
-> (plus a working Perl installation
- on your system) is needed to make any &CUPS;-O-Matic (or PPD-O-Matic)
- generated PPD work with &CUPS;. It was written by Grant Taylor, Author of
- the Linux Printing HOWTO and Maintainer of the <ulink
- url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi"
->printer
- database</ulink
-> at the Linuxprinting.org website.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-daemon">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->Daemon</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->D</emphasis
->isk
- <emphasis
->a</emphasis
->nd <emphasis
->e</emphasis
->xecution
- <emphasis
->mon</emphasis
->itor; <acronym
->Daemons</acronym
-> are present
- on all &UNIX; systems to perform tasks independent of user
- intervention. Readers more familiar with &Microsoft; &Windows; might
- want to compare daemons and the tasks they are responsible
- with "services".
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- One example of a daemon present on most
- legacy &UNIX; systems is the LPD (Line Printer Daemon); &CUPS; is
- widely seen as the successor to LPD in the &UNIX; world and
- it also operates through a daemon. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-spooling">SPOOLing</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-databaselinuxprinting">
- <glossterm
->Database, Linuxprinting.org</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Already years ago, when Linux printing was still really difficult
- (only commandline printing was known to most Linux users, no device
- specific print options were available for doing the jobs), Grant Taylor,
- Author of the "Linux Printing HOWTO", collected most or the available
- infos about printers, drivers and filters in his database.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- With the emerging
- &CUPS; concept, extending the use of PPDs even to non-PostScript printers,
- he realized the potential of this database: if one puts the different
- datablobs (whith content that could be described along the lines
- "Which device prints with which ghostscript or other
- filter how well and what commandline switches are available?") into
- PPD-compatible files, he could have all the power of &CUPS; on top of
- the traditional printer "drivers".
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- This has developed now into a broader
- concept, known as "Foomatic". Foomatic extends the capabilities
- of other spoolers than &CUPS; (LPR/LPD, LPRng, PDQ, PPR) to a certain
- extend ("stealing" some concepts from &CUPS;). The Linuxprinting
- Database is not a Linux-only stop -- people running other &UNIX;
- based OSes (like *BSD or MacOS X) will find valuable infos and
- software there too.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting database</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-directtcpipprinting">
- <glossterm
->Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->This is a method that often uses TCP/IP port 9100 to connect
- to the printer. It works with many modern network printers and has
- a few advantages over LPR/LPD, as it is faster and provides some
- "backchannel feedback data" from the printer to the host sending
- the job.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-appsocketprotocol">AppSocket Protocol</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">&HP; JetDirect Protocol</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-drivers">
- <glossterm
->Drivers, Printer Drivers</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->The term "printer drivers", used in the same sense
- as on the &Microsoft; &Windows; platform, is not entirely applicable
- for a Linux or &UNIX; platform. A "driver" functionality
- is supplied on &UNIX; by different modular components working
- together. At the core are the "filters" converting a given format
- waeiting for their printing, to another format that is acceptable
- to the target printer. The filter output is sent to the
- printer by a "backend".
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPDs</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">
- <glossterm
->Easy Software Products</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial
- software products towards the Free Software community; amongst
- them the initial version of <ulink
- url="http://gimp-print.sf.net/"
->Gimp-Print,</ulink
->, the <ulink
- url="http://www.easysw.com/epm/"
->EPM software packaging</ulink
-> tool
- and <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/"
->HTMLDOC</ulink>
- (used by the "Linux Documentation Project" to build the PDF versions
- of the HOWTOs) -- but most importantly: <ulink
- url="http://www.cups.org/"
->&CUPS;</ulink
-> (the 'Common &UNIX; Printing
- System').
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- ESP finance themselves by selling a commercial version
- of &CUPS;, called <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/"
->ESP PrintPro</ulink
->,
- that includes some professional enhancements.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-esp">ESP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-encryption">
- <glossterm
->Encryption</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Encryption of confidential data is an all-important issue if
- you transfer it over the internet or even inside intra-nets.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Printing
- via traditional protocols is not encrypted at all -- it is very easy
- to tap and eavesdrop &eg; into &PostScript; or PCL data transfered
- over the wire.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Thus in the design of IPP the provision was made for an easy
- plugin of encryption mechanisms (which can be provided by the same
- means as the encryption standards for HTTP traffic: SSL and TLS.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-authentication">Authentication</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ssl">SSL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tls">TLS</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-epson">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->Epson</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Epson inkjets belong to the best supported models by Free software
- drivers as the company was not necessarily as secretive about their
- devices and handed technical specification documents to developers.
- The excellent print quality achieved by Gimp-Print on the Styli
- series of printers can be attributed to this openness.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- They have also
- contracted Easy Software Products to maintain an enhanced version
- of Ghostscript ("ESP GhostScript") for improved support of their
- printer portfolio.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">ESP Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-escapesequence">
- <glossterm
->Escape Sequences</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->The first ever printers printed ASCII data only. To
- initiate a new line, or eject a page, they included special
- command sequences, often carrying a leading [ESC]-character.
- &HP; evolved this concept through its series of PCL language
- editions until today, when they have developed a fullblown
- Page Description Language (PDL) from this humble beginnings.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pdl">PDL</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-escp">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->ESC/P</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->E</emphasis
->pson
- <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->tandard <emphasis
->C</emphasis
->odes for
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinters. Epsons ESC/P printer language is besides
- &PostScript; and PCL one of the best known.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">hpgl</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-esp">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->ESP</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->E</emphasis
->asy
- <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->oftware <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->roducts;
- the company that developed &CUPS; (the "Common &UNIX; Printing System").
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-espghostscript">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->ESP</acronym
-> Ghostscript</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->A Ghostscript version that is maintained by Easy Software
- Products. It includes pre-compiled Gimp-Print drivers for
- many inkjets ()plus some other goodies). ESP Ghostscript
- drives especially the Epson Stylus model series to photographic
- quality in many cases.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-espprintpro">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->ESP</acronym
-> PrintPro</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-> This professional enhancement to &CUPS; (the "Common &UNIX;
- Printing System") is sold by the developers
- of &CUPS; complete with more than 2.300 printer drivers for several commercial
- &UNIX; platforms. <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/printpro/"
->ESP PrintPro</ulink>
- is supposed to work "out of the box" with little or no configuration
- for users or admins. ESP sell also support contracts for
- &CUPS; and PrintPro. These sales help to feed the programmers who
- develop the Free version of &CUPS;.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-filter">
- <glossterm
->Filter</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Filters, in general, are programs that take some input
- data, work on it and pass it on as their output data. Filters
- may or may not change the data.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Filters in the context of printing, are programs that convert
- a given file (destined for printing, but not suitable in the
- format it has presently) into a printable format. Sometimes
- whole "filter chains" have to be constructed to achieve the
- goal, piping the output of one filter as input to the next.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-foomatic">
- <glossterm
->Foomatic</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of
- different tools available from <ulink
- url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/"
->Linuxprinting.org</ulink>
- These tools aimed to make the usage of traditional
- ghostscript and other print filters more easy for users and
- extend the filters capabilities by adding more commandline
- switches or explain the drivers execution data.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Foomatic's different incarnations are &CUPS;-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic,
- PDQ-O-Matic, LPD-O-Matic and xyz. All of these allow the generation
- of appropriate printer configuration files online, by simply
- selection the suitable model and suggested (or alternate) driver
- for that machine.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- More recently, Foomatic gravitated towards becoming a "meta-spooling"
- system, that allows to configure the underlying print subsystem
- through a unified set of commands. (However this is much more
- complicated than TDEPrints &GUI; interface, which does a similar
- thing regarding different print subsystems.) </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">PPD-O-Matic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsomatic">cupsomatic</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-ghostscript">
- <glossterm
->Ghostscript</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Ghostscipt is a &PostScript; RIP in software, originally
- developed by L. Peter Deutsch. There is always a <acronym
->GPL</acronym
-> version
- of ghostscript available for free usage and distribution
- (mostly 1 year old) while
- the current version is commercially sold under another license.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Ghostscript is widely used inside the Linux and &UNIX; world
- for transforming &PostScript; into raster data suitable
- for sending towards non-&PostScript; devices.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-gimpprint">
- <glossterm
->Gimp-Print</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Contrary to its name, Gimp-Print is not any longer
- just the plugin to be used for printing from the popular
- Gimp program -- its codebase can also serve to be compiled
- into...
- <!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- *...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly
- into &CUPS;, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing
- photografic output quality in many cases;
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- *...a Gostscript filter that can be used with any other
- program that needs a software-RIP;
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- *...a library that can be used by other software applications
- in need of rasterization functions.
-
-
-<!--
-after 4 hours fiddling, I
-could not get those s!@*#?
-<itemizedlist
-> to pass
-through the meinproc checks.
-For the time being I gave up
-on it and handle it differently
-now.
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem
->...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly
- into &CUPS;, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing
- photografic output quality in many cases;</listitem>
- <listitem
->...a Gostscript filter that can be used with any other
- program that needs a software-RIP;</listitem>
- <listitem
->...a library that can be used by other software applications
- in need of rasterization functions.</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
--->
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-lexmark">Lexmark Drivers</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-hp">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->&HP;</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->H</emphasis
->ewlett-<emphasis
->Packard</emphasis
->;
- none of the first companys to distribute their own Linux printer
- drivers [...to be completed...]
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-hpgl">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->&HP;/GL</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->&HP;</emphasis>
- <emphasis
->G</emphasis
->rafical <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->anguage;
- a &HP; printer language mainly used for plotters; many CAD
- (Computer Aided software programs output &HP;/GL files for
- printing.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-hpjetdirectprotocol">
- <glossterm
->&HP; JetDirect Protocol</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->A term branded by &HP; to describe their implementation
- of print data transfer to the printer via an otherwise "AppSocket" or
- "Direct TCP/IP Prining" named protocol.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-appsocketprotocol">AppSocket Protocol</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-directtcpipprinting">Direct TCP/IP Printing</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-ietf">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->IETF</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->I</emphasis
->nternet
- <emphasis
->E</emphasis
->ngineering <emphasis
->T</emphasis
->ask
- <emphasis
->F</emphasis
->orce; an assembly of internet, software
- and hardware experts that discuss
- new networking technologies and very often arrive at
- conclusions that are regarded by many as standards. "TCP/IP"
- is the most famous of examples.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- IETF standards, but also
- drafts, discussions, ideas or useful tutorials are
- put in writing in the famous series of "RFCs" which
- are available to the public and on burnt onto most Linux or
- BSD-CDs.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc">RFC</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-ipp">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->IPP</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->I</emphasis
->nternet
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinting <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rotocol;
- defined in a series of RFCs accepted by the IETF with
- status "proposed standard"; was designed
- by the PWG. -- IPP is a completely new design for network printing,
- but it is utilizing a very well-known and proven method for the
- actual data transfer: HTTP 1.1! By not "re-inventing the wheel",
- and basing itself on an existing and robust internet standard,
- IPP is able to relativly easy bolt other HTTP-compatible standard
- mechanisms into its framework:
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- * Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication
- mechanisms;
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- * SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred
- data;
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- * LDAP for directory services (to publish
- data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or
- elso to the network; or to check for passwords while
- conducting authentication).
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
-<!--
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem
->Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication
- mechanisms</listitem>
- <listitem
->SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred
- data</listitem>
- <listitem
->LDAP for directory services (to publish
- data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or
- elso to the network; or to check for passwords while
- conducting authentication)</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
--->
- </para>
-
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ietf">IETF</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc">RFC</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tls">TLS</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-tdeprint">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->TDEPrint</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->The new printing functionality of &kde; since its version 2.2
- consists of several modules that translate the features and settings
- of different available print subsystems (&CUPS;, BSD-style LPR/LPD, RLPR...)
- into nice &kde; desktop &GUI; representation and dialogs to ease their
- usage.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Most important for day-to-day usage is "kprinter", the new
- &GUI; print command. -- Note: TDEPrint does <emphasis
->not</emphasis
-> implement its own
- spooling mechanism or its own &PostScript; processing; for this it
- relies on the selected <emphasis
->print subsystem</emphasis>
- -- however it does add some functionality of its own on top of this
- foundation...
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tdeprinthandbook">TDEPrint Handbook</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-tdeprinthandbook">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->TDEPrint Handbook...</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->...is the name of the reference document that describes TDEPrint
- functions to users and administrators. You can load it into Konqueror by
- typing "help:/tdeprint" into the address field. The <ulink
- url="http://printing.kde.org/"
->TDEPrint website</ulink>
- is the ressource for updates to this documentation as well as PDF
- versions fit for printing it. It is authored and maintained by Kurt
- Pfeifle.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cupsfaq">&CUPS;-FAQ</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-kprinter">
- <glossterm
->kprinter</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
-><emphasis
->kprinter</emphasis
-> is the new powerfull
- print utility that is natively used by all &kde; applications.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Contrary to some common misconceptions,
- <emphasis
->kprinter</emphasis
-> is <emphasis
->not</emphasis
-> a &CUPS;-only tool,
- but supports different print subsystems. You can even switch
- to a different printsubsystem "on the fly", in between two jobs,
- without re-configuration. Of course, due to the powerful
- features of &CUPS;, <emphasis
->kprinter</emphasis
-> is in
- best shape when used as a &CUPS; frontend.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- <emphasis
->kprinter</emphasis
-> is the successor
- to "qtcups", which is no longer being actively maintained. kprinter has
- inherited all the best features of qtcups and added several new ones.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- AND MOST IMPORTANT: you can use <emphasis
->kprinter</emphasis>
- with all its features in all non-&kde; applications that allow
- a customized print command, like gv, AcrobatReader, Netscape,
- Mozilla, Galeon, StarOffice, OpenOffice and all GNOME programs.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- <emphasis
->kprinter</emphasis
-> can act as a "standalone"
- utility, started from an X-Terminal or a "Mini-CLI" to
- print many different files, from different directories, with different
- formats, in one job and at once, without the need to first open the
- files in the applications! (File formats supported this way are &PostScript;,
- PDF, International and ASCII Text and many different popular Grafic
- formats, such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, Sun RASTER &etc;)
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-lexmark">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->Lexmark</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->was one of the first companys to distribute their own Linux printer
- drivers for some of their models. [...to be completed...]
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-linuxprintingorg">
- <glossterm
->Linuxprinting.org</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Linuxprinting.org = not only for Linux; all &UNIX;-like OS-es
- like *BSD and also commercial Unices may find useful printing
- information on that site; Foomatic -- Printer Data Base -- Driver Data
- Base....</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting database</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->Linuxprinting.org Database</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->....Data Base containing printers and drivers suitable
- for them... ...a lot of information and documentation to be found... ...it
- is now also providing some tools and utilities for easing the integration
- of those drivers into a given system... ...the "Foomatic" family
- of utilities being the toolset to make use of the data base
- [.............TO BE COMPLETED........]
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-lprlpd">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->LPR/LPD</acronym
-> printing</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->LPR == some people translate <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ine
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinting <emphasis
->R</emphasis
->equest, others:
- <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ine <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinter
- <emphasis
->R</emphasis
->emote.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-magicfilter">
- <glossterm
->Magicfilter</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Similarly to the APSfilter program, Magicfilter
- provides automatic file type recognition functions, and base
- on that, automatic file conversion to a printable format,
- depending on the target printer.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-apsfilter">APSfilter</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-mimetypes">
- <glossterm
->&MIME;-Types</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->M</emphasis
->ultipurpose (or
- Multimedia) <emphasis
->I</emphasis
->nternet <emphasis
->M</emphasis
->ail
- <emphasis
->E</emphasis
->xtensions; &MIME;-Types were first used to allow
- the transport of binary data (like mail attachments containing
- grafics) over mail connections that were normally only transmitting
- ASCII characters: the data had to be encoded into an ASCII representation.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- Later this concept was extended to describe a data format in
- a platform independent, but at the same time in a non-ambigious way.
- From &Windows; everybody knows the *.doc extensions for &Microsoft; Word files.
- This is handled ambigiously on the &Windows; platform: *.doc extensions are also
- used for simple text files or for Adobe Framemaker files. And if a real
- Word file is re-named to get a different extension, it can't be
- opened any longer by the program
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- &MIME; typed filed carry a recognition string with them, describing
- their file format base on <emphasis
->main_category/sub_category</emphasis
->.
- Inside IPP, printfiled are also described using the &MIME; type scheme.
- &MIME; types are registered with the IANA (Internet Assigning Numbers
- <emphasis
->Association</emphasis
->) to keep them unambigious.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- &CUPS; has some &MIME; types of its own registered, like
- <emphasis
->application/vnd.cups-raster</emphasis
-> (for the &CUPS;-internal
- raster image format).
-
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-easysoftwareproducts">Easy Software Products</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-espprintpro">ESP PrintPro</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-pcl">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->PCL</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinter
- <emphasis
->C</emphasis
->ontrol <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->anguage;
- developed by &HP;. PCL started off in version 1 as a simple
- command set for ASCII printing; now,
- in its versions PCL6 and PCL-X it is capable of printing grafics
- and printing color -- but outside the &Microsoft; &Windows; realm and &HP-UX;
- (&HP;'s own brand of &UNIX;) it is not commonly used...</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">&HP;/GL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pdl">PDL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-pdl">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->PDL</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->age
- <emphasis
->D</emphasis
->escription <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->anguage;
- PDLs describe in an abstract way the grafical representation
- of a page. - Before it is actually transferred into
- toner or ink layed down onto paper, a PDL needs to be
- "interpreted" first. In &UNIX;, the most important PDL
- is PostScript.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">&HP;/GL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-pixel">
- <glossterm
->Pixel</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->Pic</emphasis
->ture
- <emphasis
->El</emphasis
->ement; this term describes the smallest
- part of a raster picture (either as printed on paper
- or as put on a monitor by cathode rays or LCD elements). As
- any grafical or image representation on those kind of output
- devices is composed of pixels, the values of "ppi" (pixel per inch)
- and &dpi; (dots per inch) are one important parameter for the
- overall quality and resolution of an image.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-raster">Raster</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-pjl">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->PJL</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rint
- <emphasis
->J</emphasis
->ob <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->anguage;
- developed by &HP; to control and influence default and per-job
- settings of a printer. May not only be used
- for &HP;'s own (PCL-)printers; also many &PostScript;
- and other printers understand PJL commands sent to them
- inside a printjob or in a separate signal.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-postscript">
- <glossterm
->&PostScript;</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->&PostScript; (often shortened "PS") is the de-facto
- standard in the &UNIX; world for printing files. It was
- developed by Adobe and licensed to printer manufacturers
- and software companies.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
- As the &PostScript; specifications were
- published by Adobe, there are also "Third Party" implementations
- of &PostScript; generating and &PostScript; interpreting software
- available (one of the best-known in the Free software world
- being Ghostscript, a powerfull PS-interpreter)
- .</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-escp">ESC/P</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-hpgl">&HP;/GL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pcl">PCL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ppd">PPD</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-ppd">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->PPD</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->ostScript
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinter <emphasis
->D</emphasis
->escription;
- PPDs are ASCII files storing all information about the special
- capabilities of a printer, plus definitions of the (PostScript-
- or PJL-)commands to call on a certain capability (like printing
- duplex).
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- As the explanation of the acronym reveals, PPDs were originally
- only used for &PostScript; printers. &CUPS; has extended the
- PPD-concept towards all types of printers.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- PPDs for &PostScript; printers are provided by the printer
- vendors. They can be used with &CUPS; and TDEPrint to have access
- to the full features of any &PostScript; printer. The TDEPrint Team
- recommends to use a PPD originally intended for use with
- &Microsoft; Windows NT.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- PPDs for non-PostScript printers <emphasis
->need</emphasis
-> a
- companion "filter" to process the &PostScript; print files towards
- a format digestable for the non-PostScript target device. Those
- PPD/filter combos are not (yet) available from the vendors. After
- the initiative by the &CUPS; developers to utilize PPDs, the Free
- Software community was creative enough to quickly come up with
- a support for most of the currently used printer models through
- PPDs and classical Ghostscript filters. But note: the printout
- quality differs from "hi-quality photografic output" (using
- Gimp-Print with most Epson inkjets) to "hardly readable" (using
- Foomatic-enabled ghostscript filters for models rated as
- "paperweight" in the Linuxprinting.org database).
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups">&CUPS;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingorg">Linuxprinting.org</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-PPD-O-Matic">
- <glossterm
->PPD-O-Matic</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->PPD-O-Matic is a set of Perl-Scripts that run on the Linuxprinting.org
- webserver and can be used online to generate PPDs for any printer that is known
- to print with ghostscript.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- These PPDs can be hook up to &CUPS;/TDEPrint as well as
- used inside PPD-aware applications like StarOffice to determine all different
- parameters of your printjobs. It is now recommended for most cases to
- use "PPD-O-Matic" instead of the older &CUPS;-O-Matic.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- To generate a PPD, go to the <ulink
- url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi"
->printer
- database</ulink
->, select your printer model, follow
- the link to show the available ghostscript filters for that printer, select
- one, click "generate" and finally safe the file to your local system.
- Make sure to read the instructions. Make sure your local system
- does indeed have ghostscript and the filter installed, which you chose
- before generating the PPD.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-cups-o-matic">&CUPS;-O-Matic</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingorg">Linuxprinting.org</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-foomatic">Foomatic</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-printcap">
- <glossterm
->printcap</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->The "printcap" file holds in BSD-style print systems
- the configuration information; the printing daemon reads this file
- to know which printers are available, what filters are to
- user for each, where the spooling directory is located,
- if there are banner pages to be used, and so on...
- Some applications also depend on reading access to the printcap
- file to grap the names of available printer. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting">BSD-style printing</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-printermib">
- <glossterm
->Printer-<acronym
->MIB</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for
- <emphasis
->Printer</emphasis
->-<emphasis
->M</emphasis
->anagement
- <emphasis
->I</emphasis
->nformation <emphasis
->B</emphasis
->ase; the
- Printer-MIB defines a set of parameters that are to be
- stored inside the printer for access
- through the network. This is useful if many (in some cases, literally
- thousands of) network printers are managed centrally
- with the help of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-snmp">SNMP</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-pwg">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->PWG</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinter <emphasis
->W</emphasis
->orking
- <emphasis
->G</emphasis
->roup; the PWG is a loose grouping of
- representatives of the printer industry that has in the past
- years developed different standards
- in relation to nework printing, which were later accepted by the
- IETF as RFC standards, like the "Printer-MIB" and the IPP.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp">IPP</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printermib">Printer-MIB</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-snmp">SNMP</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-printtdeioslave">
- <glossterm
->print:/ KIO Slave</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->You can use a syntax of "print:/..." to get quick access
- to TDEPrint ressources. Typing "print:/manager" as a Konqueror URL
- address gives administrative access to TDEPrint. Konqueror uses &kde;'s
- famous "KParts" technology to achieve that. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave">IO Slave</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kparts">KParts</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-printerdatabase">
- <glossterm
->Printer Data Base</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-linuxprintingdatabase">Linuxprinting Data Base</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-qtcups">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->Qt&CUPS;</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->co-developer of Qt&CUPS; and KUPS, the predecessors of TDEPrint,
- sole developer of TDEPrint -- a very nice and productive guy and quick bug fixer... ;-)
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-raster">
- <glossterm
->Raster Image</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->In the last resort, every picture on a physical medium
- is composed of a pattern of discrete dots in different colors and (maybe)
- sizes. This is called a "raster image".
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- This is opposed to a "vector image"
- where the grafic is described in terms of continuous curves, shades,
- forms and fills, represented by mathematical formula. Vector images
- normally are of a smaller file size and may be scaled in size
- without any loss of information and quality --- but they can't be
- output directly, they always need to be "rendered" or "rasterized"
- first to the given resolution, the output device is capable of...
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
-
- The rasterization is done by a Raster Image Processor (RIP,
- often the Ghostscript software) or some other filtering
- instance.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pixel">Pixel</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rip">RIP</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-rip">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->RIP</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for
- <emphasis
->R</emphasis
->aster <emphasis
->I</emphasis
->mage
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rocess(or); if used in the context of
- printing, "RIP" means a hardware or software
- instance that converts &PostScript; (or other print files
- that represented in one of the non-Raster PDLs) into a
- raster image format in such a way that it is acceptable
- for the "marking engine" of the printer.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- &PostScript; printers
- contain their own PostScript-RIPs. A RIP may or may not be located
- inside a printer.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- For many &UNIX; systems, Ghostscript is the package that provides
- a "RIP in software", running on the host computer, and pre-digesting
- the &PostScript; or other data to become ready to be sent to the
- printing device (hence you may sense a "grain of truth" in the
- slogan "Ghostscript turns your printer into a &PostScript;
- machine", which of course is not correct in the sense of the
- letter.)</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-filter">Filter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ghostscript">Ghostscript</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-postscript">&PostScript;</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pdl">PDL</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-raster">Raster</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-rlpr">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->RLPR</acronym
-> (Remote LPR)</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->R</emphasis
->emote
- <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ine <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinting
- <emphasis
->R</emphasis
->equest; this is a a BSD-style printing system,
- that needs no root priviledges to be installed and no "printcap" to
- work: all parameters may be specified on the command
- line.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- RLPR comes in handy for many laptop users who are
- working in frequently changing environments, because it
- may be installed concurrently with every other printing
- sub system and allows a very flexible and wuick
- way to install a printer for direct access via LPR/LPD.
-<!--
- </para>
- <para>
--->
-
- TDEPrint
- has an "Add Printer Wizard" to make RLPR usage even more
- easy. The kprinter command allows to switch to RLPR "on
- the fly" at any time.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-tdeprint">TDEPrint</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kprinter">kprinter</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printcap">printcap</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-snmp">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->SNMP</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->imple
- <emphasis
->N</emphasis
->etwork <emphasis
->M</emphasis
->anagement
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rotocol; SNMP is widely used to control
- all sorts network nodes (Hosts, Routers, Switches, Gateways,
- Printers...) remotely.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-pwg">PWG</glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-printermib">Printer-MIB</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-ssl">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->SSL(3)</acronym
-> encryption</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->ecure
- <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->ocket <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ayer;
- <acronym
->SSL</acronym
-> is a proprietary encryption method for data
- transfer over HTTP that was developed by Netscape and is now being
- re-placed by an IETF standard named TLS.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-daemon"><acronym
->Daemon</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-spooling">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->SPOOL</acronym
->ing</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->ynchronous
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->eripherals <emphasis
->O</emphasis
->perations
- <emphasis
->O</emphasis
->n<emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ine;
- <acronym
->SPOOL</acronym
->ing enables printing applications
- (and users) to continue their work
- as the job is being taken care of by a system <acronym
->daemon</acronym>
- who stores the file at a temporary location until the printer is ready
- to print. </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-daemon"><acronym
->Daemon</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-tls">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->TLS</acronym
-> encryption</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->T</emphasis
->ransport
- <emphasis
->L</emphasis
->ayer <emphasis
->S</emphasis
->ecurity;
- <acronym
->SSL</acronym
-> is an encryption standard for
- data transfered over HTTP 1.1; it is defined in RFC ???? [#look up
- number --TO BE DONE--] ; although based on the former SSL development
- (from Netscape) it is not fully compatible to it.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-daemon"><acronym
->Daemon</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-systemVstyleprinting">
- <glossterm
->System V-style printing</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->This is the second flavour of traditional &UNIX;
- printing (as opposed to BSD-style printing). It uses
- a different command set (lp, lpadmin,...) from BSD,
- but is not fundamentally different from it. However, the
- gap between the two is big enough to make the two
- incompatible so that a BSD-client can't simply print
- to a System V style print server without additional
- tweaking... IPP is supposed to resolve this weakness
- and more.
- </para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-bsdstyleprinting"><acronym
->BSD-style printing</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ipp"><acronym
->IPP</acronym
-></glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-turboprint">
- <glossterm
->TurboPrint</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->A Shareware providing photo quality printing for many
- inkjet printers; it is useful if you don't find a driver for your
- printer otherwise; it may be hooked into a traditional Ghostscript
- or into a modern &CUPS; system.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gimpprint">Gimp-Print</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-xpp">
- <glossterm
-><acronym
->XPP</acronym
-></glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->Abbreviation for <emphasis
->X</emphasis>
- <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->rinting <emphasis
->P</emphasis
->anel;
- <acronym
->XPP</acronym
-> was the first Free
- graphical print command for &CUPS;, written by Till Kamppeter,
- and in some ways a model for the "kprinter" utility in &kde;.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-<!--
- <glossentry id="gloss-1">
- <glossterm
->xxxx</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-1">xyz</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-3">
- <glossterm
->xxxx</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-1">xyz</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-4">
- <glossterm
->xxxx</glossterm>
- <glossdef
-><para
->.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-1">xyz</glossseealso>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
--->
- </glossdiv>
-
-
-<!--
-</glossary>
--->
-