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diff --git a/doc/tdeprint/final-word.docbook b/doc/tdeprint/final-word.docbook new file mode 100644 index 000000000..175afb2f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tdeprint/final-word.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +<chapter id="final-word-from-author"> +<title>Final word from the Author</title> + +<sect1 id="who-am-i"> +<title>Who am I, what is my business? </title> + +<para> +My employer is Danka Deutschland GmbH, a leading and +manufacturer-independent provider of professional and hi-speed digital +printing systems, black-and-white as well as color. Danka provides +hardware, software, service, maintenance, consumables and customized +solutions for the products in its portfolio. I work there as a +System Engineer. Amongst the brands Danka offers are Heidelberg +(formerly Kodak), Canon, &Hewlett-Packard;, Hitachi, Infotec and +EfI.</para> + +<para> +My acquaintance with &Linux; and the Free Software community is not +too old. When I started to play around with &Linux; at the beginning +of 1999, my deepest disappointment was the poor support for +printing. True, I made all our machines spit out simplex prints -- but +what about duplex? What about punching the output? How to make sorting +work? Or stapling, cover sheets and all the other beautiful finishing +options our engines offer to customers? No way -- at least for me as a +non-geek!</para> + +<para> +I began a search on the Internet for a solution. Fortunately not +much later, in May 1999, Mike Sweet, principal developer of &CUPS;, +announced the first Beta release of this superb piece of printing +software. After trying it briefly, I knew this was it!</para> + +<para> +Next thing I attempted: to make &Linux; distributions interested in +this new stuff. Believe me -- it was more than tenacious! They seemed +to think they already had the best thing they could get in +printing. One reason probably was that they (and many &Linux; +developers) never had to think about how to best support a printer +duplexer -- because one had never come near their own +desks...</para> + +<para> +Finally, my attempts to make some &Linux; print publications +interested in &CUPS; <quote>backfired</quote> on me - one editor +squeezed me into writing a series on the subject myself. And this is +how some people started to give me the nickname <quote>CUPS +Evangelist</quote>. I will not get rid of this nick anytime soon, now +that even the &kde; people wedged me into their timeframe of +releases. Oh, boy...</para> + +<para>Anyway, &CUPS; is now making its way around the world and it +might well become a triumphal one: I am a little bit proud to have +supported and contributed to this from near the beginning.</para> + +<para>It should encourage you: even if some more experienced &Linux; +users than you are skeptical about it, and even if your programming +skills are next to zero (like mine) - there are a lot of tasks and +jobs and ideas, and talent that you can contribute to the Free Software +community. Not least within the &kde; project... ;-) +</para> + +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="credits"> +<title>Credits</title> + +<para>I'd like to thank...</para> +<itemizedlist> +<listitem> +<para>Mike Sweet for developing &CUPS; in the first place</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<para>Jean-Eric Cuendet for starting <application>kups</application> +and <application>qtcups</application>, the predecessors of +&tdeprint;</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<para>Michael Goffioul for doing all the hard work recently</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<para>Martin Konold for thinking twice</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<para>Sven Guckes for teaching me a few things about the art of <quote>survival +on the terminal</quote> (just in case &kde; is not there ;-) )</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<para>...too numerous others to mention who also let me snatch bits +and bytes of knowledge +off them</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<para> and last, but not least: Tom Schwaller for encouraging me +to get into <quote>documentation +writing</quote></para> +</listitem> +</itemizedlist> + +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="caveats"> +<title>Caveats</title> + +<para>&tdeprint; has been developed on a system using &CUPS; 1.1.6. +&tdeprint; has been tested on other versions of &CUPS; and so +far no incompatibilities are known. By the time of writing +this Handbook, &CUPS; 1.1.9 is out with a few new features +not yet supported by &tdeprint;. Of course you are able to +access these features, but you will need to bypass &tdeprint; +and use the &CUPS; command-line tools or edit configuration +files manually. &tdeprint;'s development will go on and this +Handbook strives to always be the best available user documentation +resource for it.</para> + +</sect1> + +</chapter> |