There hasn’t been a new release of CUPS Cloud Print in while, and as a lot of bugfixes and changes have been made I’ve decided it’s about time to release a new version.
Over the past few months there has been a lot of work bugfixing, tidying and refactoring the code ( massive thanks goes to Jacob Marble at Google for …
Read More- I discovered shortly after releasing the March release that distros running older versions of CUPS or PyCUPS ( CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 10.04 were the ones I noticed ) had an issue with the longer printer URIs that are now used in the 20140307 release onwards. To fix this, I’ve released a new version ( 20140308 ) which uses …
Read More The March release of CUPS Cloud Print is currently rolling out to the repositories, and has yet more bugfixes.
The main bug fixed this month was an issue regarding having multiple printers in the same Google Cloud Print account with the same name, this should now work correctly ( previously having two printers with the …
Read MoreThis month’s release of CUPS Cloud Print is currently rolling out to the repositories, and brings a new round of bugfixes.
Most of the changes this month are related to logging output ( and fixing the annoying long standing ‘No handlers could be found for logger’ message ), and better maintenance of the file-system …
Read MoreIn the new release of CUPS Cloud Print, the major change is the migration of the scripts from /usr/lib/cloudprint to /usr/share/cloudprint , to comply with the UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standards, and reduce warnings/errors when creating packages.
Another change since the last release is the addition of signing of the …
Read MoreThis month I’ve been focusing on fixing page orientation ( landscape/portrait printing ).
Landscape printing should now be supported properly – CUPS Cloud Print will use imagemagick ( the 20131009 release used pdfjam, which had a lot of dependencies, and seems to have issues running under the ‘lp’ user under some …
Read MoreThe September 2013 release of CUPS Cloud Print is rolling out to repositories currently, and has many fixes to how print options are handled.
Print options specified when a document is printed are now obeyed, so whether to print in colour for example can be selected on a per-print-job basis.
Read MoreThis release has many bugfixes, mostly around non-ASCII text appearing in responses from Google ( for non-English-language printers ).
This release also allows CUPS to send PDF files direct to CUPS Cloud Print, reducing the time it takes for pages to be printed ( this is most noticeable for low CPU devices, my …
Read More- The main change from this release is a complete rewrite of how printer information is pulled from CUPS. With this change, all capabilities supplied by Google about a printer now show as selectable options with CUPS ( or printing dialogs that pass through the CUPS options correctly ) – so two-sided printing, different …
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