On 20.01.2008, at 01:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008, at 14:11, Matt wrote:
Hooray! I finally got my printer working! Ryan, your help compiling ppmtomd was a big step.
Congratulations!
If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I needed to take to get the printer working here: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?19,4245,4315#msg-4315
Nice.
Hopefully anyone else trying do get an alps printer working on and intel mac will find it.
I'm glad you got it working! But your instructions have people manually copying ppmtomd from ${prefix}/bin to /usr/local/bin. That's non-excellent. It would be better to figure out how to make it work from ${prefix}/bin.
Actually, I believe it is not necessary to do anything at all, well besides making sure /opt/local/bin is in the PATH when the PPD/filter is executed. he ppd does apparently not make any assumptions on the path, it simply calls the ppmtomd binary the environmnt gives it: *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting PageSize=A4: " -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r600x600 - | && ppmtomd -autoshift -papersize A4"
You also have people manually downloading and installing ghostscript, foomatic-rip and usbtb. We already have a port for ghostscript in MacPorts. Wouldn't it make things easier to create ports for foomatic-rip and usbtb as well?
Obviously;) Just someone has to do it -- and maybe a bit more than just these few packages would be useful. It would be great if at some point MacPorts could provide a OpenPrinting port (or many...), providing the PPDs along the necessary driver/filter software? As a start, providing all the necessary driver software, but not the PPDs, would e a big step forward. The users download the PPD fro OpenPrinting.org and port install openprinting gives them everything else that's necessary (could be a meta-package). Just an idea... Greetings, Jochen -- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité GnuPG key: CC1B0B4D Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll