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diff --git a/doc/kdeprint/final-word.docbook b/doc/kdeprint/final-word.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index 175afb2f1..000000000 --- a/doc/kdeprint/final-word.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,117 +0,0 @@ -<chapter id="final-word-from-author"> -<title>Final word from the Author</title> - -<sect1 id="who-am-i"> -<title>Who am I, what is my business? </title> - -<para> -My employer is Danka Deutschland GmbH, a leading and -manufacturer-independent provider of professional and hi-speed digital -printing systems, black-and-white as well as color. Danka provides -hardware, software, service, maintenance, consumables and customized -solutions for the products in its portfolio. I work there as a -System Engineer. Amongst the brands Danka offers are Heidelberg -(formerly Kodak), Canon, &Hewlett-Packard;, Hitachi, Infotec and -EfI.</para> - -<para> -My acquaintance with &Linux; and the Free Software community is not -too old. When I started to play around with &Linux; at the beginning -of 1999, my deepest disappointment was the poor support for -printing. True, I made all our machines spit out simplex prints -- but -what about duplex? What about punching the output? How to make sorting -work? Or stapling, cover sheets and all the other beautiful finishing -options our engines offer to customers? No way -- at least for me as a -non-geek!</para> - -<para> -I began a search on the Internet for a solution. Fortunately not -much later, in May 1999, Mike Sweet, principal developer of &CUPS;, -announced the first Beta release of this superb piece of printing -software. After trying it briefly, I knew this was it!</para> - -<para> -Next thing I attempted: to make &Linux; distributions interested in -this new stuff. Believe me -- it was more than tenacious! They seemed -to think they already had the best thing they could get in -printing. One reason probably was that they (and many &Linux; -developers) never had to think about how to best support a printer -duplexer -- because one had never come near their own -desks...</para> - -<para> -Finally, my attempts to make some &Linux; print publications -interested in &CUPS; <quote>backfired</quote> on me - one editor -squeezed me into writing a series on the subject myself. And this is -how some people started to give me the nickname <quote>CUPS -Evangelist</quote>. I will not get rid of this nick anytime soon, now -that even the &kde; people wedged me into their timeframe of -releases. Oh, boy...</para> - -<para>Anyway, &CUPS; is now making its way around the world and it -might well become a triumphal one: I am a little bit proud to have -supported and contributed to this from near the beginning.</para> - -<para>It should encourage you: even if some more experienced &Linux; -users than you are skeptical about it, and even if your programming -skills are next to zero (like mine) - there are a lot of tasks and -jobs and ideas, and talent that you can contribute to the Free Software -community. Not least within the &kde; project... ;-) -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1 id="credits"> -<title>Credits</title> - -<para>I'd like to thank...</para> -<itemizedlist> -<listitem> -<para>Mike Sweet for developing &CUPS; in the first place</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para>Jean-Eric Cuendet for starting <application>kups</application> -and <application>qtcups</application>, the predecessors of -&tdeprint;</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para>Michael Goffioul for doing all the hard work recently</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para>Martin Konold for thinking twice</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para>Sven Guckes for teaching me a few things about the art of <quote>survival -on the terminal</quote> (just in case &kde; is not there ;-) )</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para>...too numerous others to mention who also let me snatch bits -and bytes of knowledge -off them</para> -</listitem> -<listitem> -<para> and last, but not least: Tom Schwaller for encouraging me -to get into <quote>documentation -writing</quote></para> -</listitem> -</itemizedlist> - -</sect1> - -<sect1 id="caveats"> -<title>Caveats</title> - -<para>&tdeprint; has been developed on a system using &CUPS; 1.1.6. -&tdeprint; has been tested on other versions of &CUPS; and so -far no incompatibilities are known. By the time of writing -this Handbook, &CUPS; 1.1.9 is out with a few new features -not yet supported by &tdeprint;. Of course you are able to -access these features, but you will need to bypass &tdeprint; -and use the &CUPS; command-line tools or edit configuration -files manually. &tdeprint;'s development will go on and this -Handbook strives to always be the best available user documentation -resource for it.</para> - -</sect1> - -</chapter> |