From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: Line printer input filter apsfilter 4.9.5 available
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:56:36 GMT

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#	$Id: ANNOUNCE,v 1.3 1998/05/17 21:06:06 andreas Exp $

New Goodies in 4.9.5
====================

o Support direct printing of HTML documents
  using html2ps

WHAT IS APSFILTER
=================

Do you have the German Unix Magazine UnixOpen February 1995 handy ?
Yes ?! Then read the article about apsfilter "Jetzt wird Druck gemacht".
					
APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD-like
printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work 
when printing different file types wether compressed or not !!!

Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported
by the free postscript emulator - under the terms of the GPL - 
"ghostscript" (gs), to print postscript files automatically !

With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 its now possible to print 
*compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!! 
The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system.

 o Supported packers:

	GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT

 o Supported file types:

	Postscript
	TeX DVI
	Ascii
	Data (PCL,...)
	GIFF
	TIFF
	Sun Rasterfiles
	FIG
	PNM (pbmplus)
	HTML !!!

Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly
=========================================================

	- FreeBSD 1.X
	- FreeBSD 2.X
	- FreeBSD 3.X
	- NetBSD
	- OpenBSD
	- SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4) (when using 
		another file command that can read from a pipe)
	- Many Linux Distributions
	  But please use the supported lpd print daemon, not LPRng ;-)

	- and surely all commercial Unix Systems, 
	  that run a BSD 4.X operating system

==========================================================
How to get apsfilter and related software
==========================================================

apsfilter:

http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/apsfilter-4.9.5.tar.gz

To use all of apsfilters features or capabilities some 
additional (on your system possibly non-standard) utilities 
need to be installed.

ghostscript510	- ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/gs510/
			ghostscript-5.10.tar.gz
			ghostscript-5.10gnu.tar.gz
			ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10.tar.gz
			ghostscript-fonts-other-5.10.tar.gz
jpeg		- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b
png		- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/libpng-1.0.1.tgz
zlib		- http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/zlib/
gs hp850 driver	- ftp://bonk.ethz.ch/gs-driver-distrib/hp850.zip
unzip		- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/src/unzip532.tar.gz
netpbm		- ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz
transfig	- ftp://crl.dec.com/pub/X11/contrib/applications/
			drawing_tools/transfig/transfig.3.2.tar.gz
xpm		- ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/xpm/xpm-3.4j.tar.gz
teTeX		- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/
			pub/tex/ctan/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/
			teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz
			teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz
html2ps		- http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps-1.0b1.tar.gz


Have fun !

	Andreas Klemm ///

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