From f7e7a923aca8be643f9ae6f7252f9fb27b3d2c3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Pearson Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:05:10 -0600 Subject: Second part of prior commit --- .../glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook | 1879 -------------------- 1 file changed, 1879 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 tde-i18n-it/docs/kdebase/khelpcenter/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook (limited to 'tde-i18n-it/docs/kdebase/khelpcenter/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook') diff --git a/tde-i18n-it/docs/kdebase/khelpcenter/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook b/tde-i18n-it/docs/kdebase/khelpcenter/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index cadce5dd7f3..00000000000 --- a/tde-i18n-it/docs/kdebase/khelpcenter/glossary/kdeprintingglossary.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1879 +0,0 @@ - - - - Stampa - - - - ACLs - Abbreviation for Access - Control Lists; - ACLs are used to check for the access by a given - (authenticated) user. A first rough support for ACLs - for printing is available from ∪︀; this will be refined - in future versions. - Authentication - - - - - AppSocket Protocol - AppSocket is a protocol for the transfer of - print data, also frequently called "Direct TCP/IP Printing". - &Hewlett-Packard; have used AppSocket to add a few minor - extensions around it and were very successfull to re-name - and market it under the brand "&HP; JetDirect"... - &HP; JetDirect Protocol - Direct TCP/IP Printing - - - - - APSfilter - APSfilter is used mainly in the context of "classical" - &UNIX; printing (BSD-style LPD). It is a sophisticated shell script, - disguising as an "all-in-one" filtering program. In reality, - APSfilter calls "real filters" to do the jobs needed. It sends - printjobs automatically through these other filters, based on an - initial file-type analysis of the printfile. - It is written and maintained by Andreas Klemm. - - It is - similar to Magicfilter and uses mostly Ghostscript for file conversions. - Some Linux-Distributions (like SuSE) use APSfilter, others - Magicfilter (⪚ &RedHat;), some have both for preference selection - (like has *BSD). - - ∪︀ has no need for APSfilter, - as it runs its own file type recognition (based on &MIME; types) - and applies its own filtering logic. - Ghostscript - Magicfilter - &MIME;-Types - printcap - - - - - Authentication - Proofing the identity of a certain person (maybe via username/password - or by means of a certificate) is often called authentication. Once you are - authenticated, you may or may not get access to a requested ressource, - possibly based on ACLs. - ACLs - - - - - Bi-directional communication - In the context of printing, a server or a host may receive additional - information sent back from the printer (status messages &etc;), either - upon a query or unrequested. AppSocket ( = &HP; JetDirect), ∪︀ and IPP do - support bi-directional communication, LPR/LPD and BSD-style printing - do not... - AppSocket Protocol - ∪︀ - Direct TCP/IP Printing - &HP; JetDirect - IPP - LPR/LPD - - - - - BSD-style Printing - Generic term for different variants of the traditional &UNIX; - printing method. Its first version appeared in the early 70s on - BSD &UNIX; and was formally described in RFC 1179 only as late - as 1990. - - At the time when BSD "remote" printing was first designed, printers - were serially or otherwise directly connected devices to a host - (with the internet hardly consisting of more than 100 nodes!); printers - used pre-punched, endless paperbands, fed through by a tractor - mechanism, with simple rows of ASCII text mechanically hammered onto - the medium, drawn from a cardboard beneath the table, giving it back - as a zig-zag folded paper"snake". Remote printing consisted in - neighouring host from the next room sending a file - asking for printout. - - How technology has changed! Printers use cut-sheet media, they have - built-in intelligence to compute the raster images of pages after pages - that are sent to them using one of the powerfull page description - languages (PDL), many are network nodes in their own right, - with CPU, RAM, HardDisk and an own Operation System and - they are hooked to a net with potentially millions of users... - - It is a vast proof of the flexible &UNIX; concept for doing things, - that it made "Line Printing" reliably work even under these modern - conditions. But time has finally come now to go for something new - -- the IPP. - - IPP - ∪︀ - LPR/LPD printing - - - - - ∪︀ - Abbreviation for Common - UNIX Printing - System; ∪︀ is most modern &UNIX; and Linux - printing system, providing also cross-platform printservices - to &Microsoft; &Windows; and Apple MacOS clients. Based on IPP, it does - away with all the pitfalls of old-style BSD printing, - providing authentication, encryption and ACLs, plus many more - features. At the same time it is backward-compatible enough - to serve all legacy clients that are not yet up to IPP via - LPR/LPD (BSD-style). - - ∪︀ is able to control any &PostScript; printer by - utilizing the vendor-supplied PPD (PostScript Printer - Description file), targetted originally for &Microsoft; Windows NT - printing only. &kde; Printing is most powerful if based on - ∪︀. - ACLs - Authentication - BSD-style printing - IPP - KDEPrint - LPR/LPD - PPD - - - - - - ∪︀-FAQ - Presently only available in German (translation is on the way), - the ∪︀-FAQ - is a valuable ressource to answer many question anyone new to - ∪︀ printing might have at first. - - KDEPrint Handbook - - - - - - ∪︀-O-Matic - ∪︀-O-Matic was the first "Third Party" plugin for - the ∪︀ printing software. It is available on the Linuxprinting.org - website to provide an online PPD-generating service. - - - Together with the companion cupsomatic Perl-Script, - that needs to be installed as an additional ∪︀ backend, - it re-directs output from the native pstops filter into - a chain of suitable Ghostscript filters. Upon finishing, it - gives the resulting data back to a ∪︀ "backend" for sending - them onward to the printer. - - Thusly, ∪︀-O-Matic enables support for any printers known to - have worked previously in a "classical" ghostscript environment, - if no native ∪︀ support for that printer is in sight... ∪︀-O-Matic - is now replaced by the more capable PPD-O-Matic. - cupsomatic - PPD-O-Matic - Foomatic - - - - - - cupsomatic - The Perlscript cupsomatic (plus a working Perl installation - on your system) is needed to make any ∪︀-O-Matic (or PPD-O-Matic) - generated PPD work with ∪︀. It was written by Grant Taylor, Author of - the Linux Printing HOWTO and Maintainer of the printer - database at the Linuxprinting.org website. - ∪︀-O-Matic - Foomatic - cupsomatic - - - - - Daemon - Abbreviation for Disk - and execution - monitor; Daemons are present - on all &UNIX; systems to perform tasks independent of user - intervention. Readers more familiar with &Microsoft; &Windows; might - want to compare daemons and the tasks they are responsible - with "services". - - One example of a daemon present on most - legacy &UNIX; systems is the LPD (Line Printer Daemon); ∪︀ is - widely seen as the successor to LPD in the &UNIX; world and - it also operates through a daemon. - SPOOLing - - - - - Database, Linuxprinting.org - Already years ago, when Linux printing was still really difficult - (only commandline printing was known to most Linux users, no device - specific print options were available for doing the jobs), Grant Taylor, - Author of the "Linux Printing HOWTO", collected most or the available - infos about printers, drivers and filters in his database. - - With the emerging - ∪︀ concept, extending the use of PPDs even to non-PostScript printers, - he realized the potential of this database: if one puts the different - datablobs (whith content that could be described along the lines - "Which device prints with which ghostscript or other - filter how well and what commandline switches are available?") into - PPD-compatible files, he could have all the power of ∪︀ on top of - the traditional printer "drivers". - - This has developed now into a broader - concept, known as "Foomatic". Foomatic extends the capabilities - of other spoolers than ∪︀ (LPR/LPD, LPRng, PDQ, PPR) to a certain - extend ("stealing" some concepts from ∪︀). The Linuxprinting - Database is not a Linux-only stop -- people running other &UNIX; - based OSes (like *BSD or MacOS X) will find valuable infos and - software there too. - - Foomatic - Linuxprinting database - - - - - Direct TCP/IP Printing - This is a method that often uses TCP/IP port 9100 to connect - to the printer. It works with many modern network printers and has - a few advantages over LPR/LPD, as it is faster and provides some - "backchannel feedback data" from the printer to the host sending - the job. - AppSocket Protocol - &HP; JetDirect Protocol - - - - - - Drivers, Printer Drivers - The term "printer drivers", used in the same sense - as on the &Microsoft; &Windows; platform, is not entirely applicable - for a Linux or &UNIX; platform. A "driver" functionality - is supplied on &UNIX; by different modular components working - together. At the core are the "filters" converting a given format - waeiting for their printing, to another format that is acceptable - to the target printer. The filter output is sent to the - printer by a "backend". - - Filter - PPDs - - - - - Easy Software Products - Mike Sweet's company, which has contributed a few substantial - software products towards the Free Software community; amongst - them the initial version of Gimp-Print,, the EPM software packaging tool - and HTMLDOC - (used by the "Linux Documentation Project" to build the PDF versions - of the HOWTOs) -- but most importantly: ∪︀ (the 'Common &UNIX; Printing - System'). - - ESP finance themselves by selling a commercial version - of ∪︀, called ESP PrintPro, - that includes some professional enhancements. - - ∪︀ - ESP PrintPro - ESP - Gimp-Print - - - - - Encryption - Encryption of confidential data is an all-important issue if - you transfer it over the internet or even inside intra-nets. - - Printing - via traditional protocols is not encrypted at all -- it is very easy - to tap and eavesdrop ⪚ into &PostScript; or PCL data transfered - over the wire. - - Thus in the design of IPP the provision was made for an easy - plugin of encryption mechanisms (which can be provided by the same - means as the encryption standards for HTTP traffic: SSL and TLS. - Authentication - ∪︀ - IPP - SSL - TLS - - - - - - Epson - Epson inkjets belong to the best supported models by Free software - drivers as the company was not necessarily as secretive about their - devices and handed technical specification documents to developers. - The excellent print quality achieved by Gimp-Print on the Styli - series of printers can be attributed to this openness. - - They have also - contracted Easy Software Products to maintain an enhanced version - of Ghostscript ("ESP GhostScript") for improved support of their - printer portfolio. - - ESP Ghostscript - - - - - - Escape Sequences - The first ever printers printed ASCII data only. To - initiate a new line, or eject a page, they included special - command sequences, often carrying a leading [ESC]-character. - &HP; evolved this concept through its series of PCL language - editions until today, when they have developed a fullblown - Page Description Language (PDL) from this humble beginnings. - - PCL - PDL - - - - - ESC/P - Abbreviation for Epson - Standard Codes for - Printers. Epsons ESC/P printer language is besides - &PostScript; and PCL one of the best known. - ESC/P - PCL - &PostScript; - hpgl - - - - - ESP - Abbreviation for Easy - Software Products; - the company that developed ∪︀ (the "Common &UNIX; Printing System"). - - Easy Software Products - ∪︀ - ESP PrintPro - - - - - - ESP Ghostscript - A Ghostscript version that is maintained by Easy Software - Products. It includes pre-compiled Gimp-Print drivers for - many inkjets ()plus some other goodies). ESP Ghostscript - drives especially the Epson Stylus model series to photographic - quality in many cases. - - Easy Software Products - ∪︀ - ESP PrintPro - - - - - ESP PrintPro - This professional enhancement to ∪︀ (the "Common &UNIX; - Printing System") is sold by the developers - of ∪︀ complete with more than 2.300 printer drivers for several commercial - &UNIX; platforms. ESP PrintPro - is supposed to work "out of the box" with little or no configuration - for users or admins. ESP sell also support contracts for - ∪︀ and PrintPro. These sales help to feed the programmers who - develop the Free version of ∪︀. - - ∪︀ - - - - - Filter - Filters, in general, are programs that take some input - data, work on it and pass it on as their output data. Filters - may or may not change the data. - - Filters in the context of printing, are programs that convert - a given file (destined for printing, but not suitable in the - format it has presently) into a printable format. Sometimes - whole "filter chains" have to be constructed to achieve the - goal, piping the output of one filter as input to the next. - - Ghostscript - RIP - - - - - Foomatic - Foomatic started out as the wrapper name for a set of - different tools available from Linuxprinting.org - These tools aimed to make the usage of traditional - ghostscript and other print filters more easy for users and - extend the filters capabilities by adding more commandline - switches or explain the drivers execution data. - - Foomatic's different incarnations are ∪︀-O-Matic, PPD-O-Matic, - PDQ-O-Matic, LPD-O-Matic and xyz. All of these allow the generation - of appropriate printer configuration files online, by simply - selection the suitable model and suggested (or alternate) driver - for that machine. - - More recently, Foomatic gravitated towards becoming a "meta-spooling" - system, that allows to configure the underlying print subsystem - through a unified set of commands. (However this is much more - complicated than KDEPrints &GUI; interface, which does a similar - thing regarding different print subsystems.) - ∪︀-O-Matic - PPD-O-Matic - cupsomatic - - - - - Ghostscript - Ghostscipt is a &PostScript; RIP in software, originally - developed by L. Peter Deutsch. There is always a GPL version - of ghostscript available for free usage and distribution - (mostly 1 year old) while - the current version is commercially sold under another license. - - Ghostscript is widely used inside the Linux and &UNIX; world - for transforming &PostScript; into raster data suitable - for sending towards non-&PostScript; devices. - &PostScript; - RIP - - - - - Gimp-Print - Contrary to its name, Gimp-Print is not any longer - just the plugin to be used for printing from the popular - Gimp program -- its codebase can also serve to be compiled - into... - - *...a set of PPDs and associated filters that integrate seamlessly - into ∪︀, supporting around 130 different printer models, providing - photografic output quality in many cases; - - - *...a Gostscript filter that can be used with any other - program that needs a software-RIP; - - - *...a library that can be used by other software applications - in need of rasterization functions. - - - - - Lexmark Drivers - RIP - Ghostscript - - - - - &HP; - Abbreviation for Hewlett-Packard; - none of the first companys to distribute their own Linux printer - drivers [...to be completed...] - - - - - - - &HP;/GL - Abbreviation for &HP; - Grafical Language; - a &HP; printer language mainly used for plotters; many CAD - (Computer Aided software programs output &HP;/GL files for - printing. - ESC/P - PCL - &PostScript; - - - - - &HP; JetDirect Protocol - A term branded by &HP; to describe their implementation - of print data transfer to the printer via an otherwise "AppSocket" or - "Direct TCP/IP Prining" named protocol. - AppSocket Protocol - Direct TCP/IP Printing - - - - - IETF - Abbreviation for Internet - Engineering Task - Force; an assembly of internet, software - and hardware experts that discuss - new networking technologies and very often arrive at - conclusions that are regarded by many as standards. "TCP/IP" - is the most famous of examples. - - - IETF standards, but also - drafts, discussions, ideas or useful tutorials are - put in writing in the famous series of "RFCs" which - are available to the public and on burnt onto most Linux or - BSD-CDs. - IPP - PWG - RFC - - - - - IPP - Abbreviation for Internet - Printing Protocol; - defined in a series of RFCs accepted by the IETF with - status "proposed standard"; was designed - by the PWG. -- IPP is a completely new design for network printing, - but it is utilizing a very well-known and proven method for the - actual data transfer: HTTP 1.1! By not "re-inventing the wheel", - and basing itself on an existing and robust internet standard, - IPP is able to relativly easy bolt other HTTP-compatible standard - mechanisms into its framework: - - * Basic, Digest or Certificate authentication - mechanisms; - - * SSL or TLS for encryption of transferred - data; - - * LDAP for directory services (to publish - data on printers, device-options, drivers, costs or - elso to the network; or to check for passwords while - conducting authentication). - - - - - - ∪︀ - PWG - IETF - RFC - TLS - - - - - KDEPrint - The new printing functionality of &kde; since its version 2.2 - consists of several modules that translate the features and settings - of different available print subsystems (∪︀, BSD-style LPR/LPD, RLPR...) - into nice &kde; desktop &GUI; representation and dialogs to ease their - usage. - - Most important for day-to-day usage is "kprinter", the new - &GUI; print command. -- Note: KDEPrint does not implement its own - spooling mechanism or its own &PostScript; processing; for this it - relies on the selected print subsystem - -- however it does add some functionality of its own on top of this - foundation... - - BSD-style printing - ∪︀ - kprinter - KDEPrint Handbook - - - - - - KDEPrint Handbook... - ...is the name of the reference document that describes KDEPrint - functions to users and administrators. You can load it into Konqueror by - typing "help:/tdeprint" into the address field. The KDEPrint website - is the ressource for updates to this documentation as well as PDF - versions fit for printing it. It is authored and maintained by Kurt - Pfeifle. - - ∪︀-FAQ - - - - - kprinter - kprinter is the new powerfull - print utility that is natively used by all &kde; applications. - - Contrary to some common misconceptions, - kprinter is not a ∪︀-only tool, - but supports different print subsystems. You can even switch - to a different printsubsystem "on the fly", in between two jobs, - without re-configuration. Of course, due to the powerful - features of ∪︀, kprinter is in - best shape when used as a ∪︀ frontend. - - kprinter is the successor - to "qtcups", which is no longer being actively maintained. kprinter has - inherited all the best features of qtcups and added several new ones. - - - AND MOST IMPORTANT: you can use kprinter - with all its features in all non-&kde; applications that allow - a customized print command, like gv, AcrobatReader, Netscape, - Mozilla, Galeon, StarOffice, OpenOffice and all GNOME programs. - - kprinter can act as a "standalone" - utility, started from an X-Terminal or a "Mini-CLI" to - print many different files, from different directories, with different - formats, in one job and at once, without the need to first open the - files in the applications! (File formats supported this way are &PostScript;, - PDF, International and ASCII Text and many different popular Grafic - formats, such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, Sun RASTER &etc;) - - kprinter - - - - - Lexmark - was one of the first companys to distribute their own Linux printer - drivers for some of their models. [...to be completed...] - - - - - - Linuxprinting.org - Linuxprinting.org = not only for Linux; all &UNIX;-like OS-es - like *BSD and also commercial Unices may find useful printing - information on that site; Foomatic -- Printer Data Base -- Driver Data - Base.... - Linuxprinting database - - - - - - Linuxprinting.org Database - ....Data Base containing printers and drivers suitable - for them... ...a lot of information and documentation to be found... ...it - is now also providing some tools and utilities for easing the integration - of those drivers into a given system... ...the "Foomatic" family - of utilities being the toolset to make use of the data base - [.............TO BE COMPLETED........] - - Foomatic - - - - - LPR/LPD printing - LPR == some people translate Line - Printing Request, others: - Line Printer - Remote. - BSD-style printing - - - - - Magicfilter - Similarly to the APSfilter program, Magicfilter - provides automatic file type recognition functions, and base - on that, automatic file conversion to a printable format, - depending on the target printer. - APSfilter - - - - - &MIME;-Types - Abbreviation for Multipurpose (or - Multimedia) Internet Mail - Extensions; &MIME;-Types were first used to allow - the transport of binary data (like mail attachments containing - grafics) over mail connections that were normally only transmitting - ASCII characters: the data had to be encoded into an ASCII representation. - - Later this concept was extended to describe a data format in - a platform independent, but at the same time in a non-ambigious way. - From &Windows; everybody knows the *.doc extensions for &Microsoft; Word files. - This is handled ambigiously on the &Windows; platform: *.doc extensions are also - used for simple text files or for Adobe Framemaker files. And if a real - Word file is re-named to get a different extension, it can't be - opened any longer by the program - - &MIME; typed filed carry a recognition string with them, describing - their file format base on main_category/sub_category. - Inside IPP, printfiled are also described using the &MIME; type scheme. - &MIME; types are registered with the IANA (Internet Assigning Numbers - Association) to keep them unambigious. - - ∪︀ has some &MIME; types of its own registered, like - application/vnd.cups-raster (for the ∪︀-internal - raster image format). - - - ∪︀ - Easy Software Products - ESP PrintPro - Gimp-Print - - - - - PCL - Abbreviation for Printer - Control Language; - developed by &HP;. PCL started off in version 1 as a simple - command set for ASCII printing; now, - in its versions PCL6 and PCL-X it is capable of printing grafics - and printing color -- but outside the &Microsoft; &Windows; realm and &HP-UX; - (&HP;'s own brand of &UNIX;) it is not commonly used... - ESC/P - &HP;/GL - PDL - &PostScript; - - - - - PDL - Abbreviation for Page - Description Language; - PDLs describe in an abstract way the grafical representation - of a page. - Before it is actually transferred into - toner or ink layed down onto paper, a PDL needs to be - "interpreted" first. In &UNIX;, the most important PDL - is PostScript. - - ESC/P - &HP;/GL - PCL - &PostScript; - - - - - Pixel - Abbreviation for Picture - Element; this term describes the smallest - part of a raster picture (either as printed on paper - or as put on a monitor by cathode rays or LCD elements). As - any grafical or image representation on those kind of output - devices is composed of pixels, the values of "ppi" (pixel per inch) - and &dpi; (dots per inch) are one important parameter for the - overall quality and resolution of an image. - Filter - Ghostscript - &PostScript; - Raster - - - - - PJL - Abbreviation for Print - Job Language; - developed by &HP; to control and influence default and per-job - settings of a printer. May not only be used - for &HP;'s own (PCL-)printers; also many &PostScript; - and other printers understand PJL commands sent to them - inside a printjob or in a separate signal. - PCL - - - - - &PostScript; - &PostScript; (often shortened "PS") is the de-facto - standard in the &UNIX; world for printing files. It was - developed by Adobe and licensed to printer manufacturers - and software companies. - - As the &PostScript; specifications were - published by Adobe, there are also "Third Party" implementations - of &PostScript; generating and &PostScript; interpreting software - available (one of the best-known in the Free software world - being Ghostscript, a powerfull PS-interpreter) - . - ESC/P - &HP;/GL - PCL - PPD - - - - - PPD - Abbreviation for PostScript - Printer Description; - PPDs are ASCII files storing all information about the special - capabilities of a printer, plus definitions of the (PostScript- - or PJL-)commands to call on a certain capability (like printing - duplex). - - - As the explanation of the acronym reveals, PPDs were originally - only used for &PostScript; printers. ∪︀ has extended the - PPD-concept towards all types of printers. - - - PPDs for &PostScript; printers are provided by the printer - vendors. They can be used with ∪︀ and KDEPrint to have access - to the full features of any &PostScript; printer. The KDEPrint Team - recommends to use a PPD originally intended for use with - &Microsoft; Windows NT. - - - PPDs for non-PostScript printers need a - companion "filter" to process the &PostScript; print files towards - a format digestable for the non-PostScript target device. Those - PPD/filter combos are not (yet) available from the vendors. After - the initiative by the ∪︀ developers to utilize PPDs, the Free - Software community was creative enough to quickly come up with - a support for most of the currently used printer models through - PPDs and classical Ghostscript filters. But note: the printout - quality differs from "hi-quality photografic output" (using - Gimp-Print with most Epson inkjets) to "hardly readable" (using - Foomatic-enabled ghostscript filters for models rated as - "paperweight" in the Linuxprinting.org database). - - ∪︀ - Linuxprinting.org - &PostScript; - - - - - PPD-O-Matic - PPD-O-Matic is a set of Perl-Scripts that run on the Linuxprinting.org - webserver and can be used online to generate PPDs for any printer that is known - to print with ghostscript. - - - These PPDs can be hook up to ∪︀/KDEPrint as well as - used inside PPD-aware applications like StarOffice to determine all different - parameters of your printjobs. It is now recommended for most cases to - use "PPD-O-Matic" instead of the older ∪︀-O-Matic. - - - To generate a PPD, go to the printer - database, select your printer model, follow - the link to show the available ghostscript filters for that printer, select - one, click "generate" and finally safe the file to your local system. - Make sure to read the instructions. Make sure your local system - does indeed have ghostscript and the filter installed, which you chose - before generating the PPD. - - &PostScript; - ∪︀-O-Matic - Linuxprinting.org - Foomatic - - - - - printcap - The "printcap" file holds in BSD-style print systems - the configuration information; the printing daemon reads this file - to know which printers are available, what filters are to - user for each, where the spooling directory is located, - if there are banner pages to be used, and so on... - Some applications also depend on reading access to the printcap - file to grap the names of available printer. - BSD-style printing - - - - - - Printer-MIB - Abbreviation for - Printer-Management - Information Base; the - Printer-MIB defines a set of parameters that are to be - stored inside the printer for access - through the network. This is useful if many (in some cases, literally - thousands of) network printers are managed centrally - with the help of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). - PWG - SNMP - - - - - PWG - Abbreviation for - Printer Working - Group; the PWG is a loose grouping of - representatives of the printer industry that has in the past - years developed different standards - in relation to nework printing, which were later accepted by the - IETF as RFC standards, like the "Printer-MIB" and the IPP. - &PostScript; - &PostScript; - IPP - Printer-MIB - SNMP - - - - - print:/ KIO Slave - You can use a syntax of "print:/..." to get quick access - to KDEPrint ressources. Typing "print:/manager" as a Konqueror URL - address gives administrative access to KDEPrint. Konqueror uses &kde;'s - famous "KParts" technology to achieve that. - IO Slave - KParts - - - - - - Printer Data Base - . - Linuxprinting Data Base - - - - - Qt∪︀ - co-developer of Qt∪︀ and KUPS, the predecessors of KDEPrint, - sole developer of KDEPrint -- a very nice and productive guy and quick bug fixer... ;-) - - kprinter - - - - - Raster Image - In the last resort, every picture on a physical medium - is composed of a pattern of discrete dots in different colors and (maybe) - sizes. This is called a "raster image". - - - This is opposed to a "vector image" - where the grafic is described in terms of continuous curves, shades, - forms and fills, represented by mathematical formula. Vector images - normally are of a smaller file size and may be scaled in size - without any loss of information and quality --- but they can't be - output directly, they always need to be "rendered" or "rasterized" - first to the given resolution, the output device is capable of... - - - - The rasterization is done by a Raster Image Processor (RIP, - often the Ghostscript software) or some other filtering - instance. - Pixel - Ghostscript - &PostScript; - Filter - RIP - - - - - RIP - Abbreviation for - Raster Image - Process(or); if used in the context of - printing, "RIP" means a hardware or software - instance that converts &PostScript; (or other print files - that represented in one of the non-Raster PDLs) into a - raster image format in such a way that it is acceptable - for the "marking engine" of the printer. - - - &PostScript; printers - contain their own PostScript-RIPs. A RIP may or may not be located - inside a printer. - - - For many &UNIX; systems, Ghostscript is the package that provides - a "RIP in software", running on the host computer, and pre-digesting - the &PostScript; or other data to become ready to be sent to the - printing device (hence you may sense a "grain of truth" in the - slogan "Ghostscript turns your printer into a &PostScript; - machine", which of course is not correct in the sense of the - letter.) - Filter - Ghostscript - &PostScript; - PDL - Raster - - - - - - RLPR (Remote LPR) - Abbreviation for Remote - Line Printing - Request; this is a a BSD-style printing system, - that needs no root priviledges to be installed and no "printcap" to - work: all parameters may be specified on the command - line. - - - RLPR comes in handy for many laptop users who are - working in frequently changing environments, because it - may be installed concurrently with every other printing - sub system and allows a very flexible and wuick - way to install a printer for direct access via LPR/LPD. - - - KDEPrint - has an "Add Printer Wizard" to make RLPR usage even more - easy. The kprinter command allows to switch to RLPR "on - the fly" at any time. - KDEPrint - kprinter - printcap - - - - - - SNMP - Abbreviation for Simple - Network Management - Protocol; SNMP is widely used to control - all sorts network nodes (Hosts, Routers, Switches, Gateways, - Printers...) remotely. - PWG - Printer-MIB - - - - - SSL(3) encryption - Abbreviation for Secure - Socket Layer; - SSL is a proprietary encryption method for data - transfer over HTTP that was developed by Netscape and is now being - re-placed by an IETF standard named TLS. - - Daemon - - - - - - SPOOLing - Abbreviation for Synchronous - Peripherals Operations - OnLine; - SPOOLing enables printing applications - (and users) to continue their work - as the job is being taken care of by a system daemon - who stores the file at a temporary location until the printer is ready - to print. - Daemon - - - - - - TLS encryption - Abbreviation for Transport - Layer Security; - SSL is an encryption standard for - data transfered over HTTP 1.1; it is defined in RFC ???? [#look up - number --TO BE DONE--] ; although based on the former SSL development - (from Netscape) it is not fully compatible to it. - - Daemon - - - - - - System V-style printing - This is the second flavour of traditional &UNIX; - printing (as opposed to BSD-style printing). It uses - a different command set (lp, lpadmin,...) from BSD, - but is not fundamentally different from it. However, the - gap between the two is big enough to make the two - incompatible so that a BSD-client can't simply print - to a System V style print server without additional - tweaking... IPP is supposed to resolve this weakness - and more. - - BSD-style printing - IPP - - - - - TurboPrint - A Shareware providing photo quality printing for many - inkjet printers; it is useful if you don't find a driver for your - printer otherwise; it may be hooked into a traditional Ghostscript - or into a modern ∪︀ system. - Gimp-Print - - - - - XPP - Abbreviation for X - Printing Panel; - XPP was the first Free - graphical print command for ∪︀, written by Till Kamppeter, - and in some ways a model for the "kprinter" utility in &kde;. - - - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.1