On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:00 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I am sorry to say, my patience has finally run out. > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T9.3.3 > > Thanks for all your efforts Drew, but I suppose your task is > hopeless when there is no activity upstream. > > Regards, Jan >
Hi Jan, thanks for your support and patience all this time. I'd like to ask you to hold one more jot of patience. The upgrade to Xorg 7.0 has brought complications left, right and centre, not just to Xprint. Fonts are still being brought into line, libxfont needs to be brought up to the forthcoming 7.1 version. I left a note in the changelog and at http://wiki.debian.org/Xprint that Xprint has degraded with Xorg7.0, but I believe it will bounce back to its previous "glory" once Debian gets 7.1 into its system (it's due for release upstream next month). Of course you of all people know that it's former state certainly had issues. The reason I'm optimistic about 7.1 is that I've grabbed it from CVS, and the mozilla printing output looks alright. It certainly didn't have the problems we now see with 7.0, and it even seemed to repair the problem printing the Debian home page. The FreeType method you mentioned at 9.3.2 looks promising, and I understand mozilla is planning to switch to Cairo for printing in firefox 2. All the same if you don't mind I'd like to drop you a line once I think Xprint from Xorg7.1 is running OK. We should at least manage to get it working as well as it did in X11R6. I've asked X.org for CVS write permission so I can help bring it up to full correct functionality, but as you said it's not a high priority for them, so I'm still waiting to hear back from them. Thanks again for all your patience. I guess I'm just trying to say the last straw was really no straw, so wait just a little longer. The real last straw is still coming :) Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
