Re: apsfilter 5.4.2 bugs'n'stuff

[Matej Vela <vela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:30:53PM +0200, Michael Lossin wrote:
> Hi, folks!

Hi!

> In apsfilterrc and $PRINT_PS there's a variable called PSUTILS,
> but awk scans for PS_UTILS (underscore!), so actually this
> setting won't get through.

Fixed.

> * For a local printer, $PRINT_REDIR is not set, so print_data
> and print_ascii_recode end in void (which most probably is the
> wrong destination). It should be:
> 
> after (2):
> 	if [ -n "$PRINT_TO_FILE" ]; then
> 		...
> 	else
> 		PRINT_REDIR=cat
> 	fi

Fixed.

> in print_ascii_recode():
> 	cat ${APS_HEADER} - | recode ${RECODE_OPTS} | print_raw

Fixed.

> I don't know what should happen in print_data... any hints?

I'm sorry, I didn't understand this?

> * Trapping signals with "echo" is not _The_Right_Thing_ (TM).
> I get LFs when printing via recode. It should be
> 	trap "" SIGxyz ...

Fixed.

> * If you use "-C ascii", the apsfilter calls print_ascii_a2ps
> even if you set USE_RECODE.

Fixed.

> * When setting the resolution in print_dvi, uniprint drivers
> should be identified with "*.upp" instead of "uniprint".

Fixed.

> * recode 3.5 whines about the old style "latin1:ibmpc" syntax;
> let's use "latin1..ibmpc" instead.

Fixed.

> And some stuff in SETUP:
> 
> * Instead of checking for user "root", maybe the script should
> test `id -u` against zero.

That's what the Debian version does.  I don't recall why Andreas
didn't apply that patch when I forwarded it to him, so it'll have to
wait until he gets back.

> * uniprint and real PS settings (seemingly) don't allow changing
> the resolution (menu item 4), but you can do it anyway.

Fixed.

> Whoever is in charge right now (Matej?), you might want to add
> my uniprint profiles for the Epson Stylus Color 640 (there are six
> of them, hi/med/lo for color and grayscale). I've uploaded them to
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/6789/download/stc640upp.tgz

I hope you sent them to the authors of Ghostscript too?  I've included
the profiles, but they don't really belong in apsfilter.

BTW, would you be interested in testing the development version of
apsfilter?  It's available from the anonymous CVS repository on
`:pserver:cvs@srv1.cosmo-project.de:/var/apscvs/APSCVS' (I can also
put in a tarball somewhere if you want).

Thanks!

Matej