Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of Printing

Timestamp:

02/18/16 06:08:24 (4 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

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Printing

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 = Printing =
 
-This feature is experimental in version 0.15, much improved in 0.16. It shares most of the code with [/wiki/FileTransfers]
-
+This feature allows printers connected to the client to be available on the server. It shares most of the code with [/wiki/FileTransfers], as the print job is first rendered to a file before being sent to the client.
 
 Known limitations and caveats:
-* the protocol and implementation may still change. See ticket #598.
-* forwarding is only supported to a Posix server. (support for MS Windows and OSX as servers may be added in the future)
-* you may encounter some permission issues: the user running the xpra server must be a printer administrator - whatever group that may be - if you need to add your user to a group you will also then need to logout and login again:
- * for Fedora and centos the ''sys'' group: {{{gpasswd -a $USER sys}}}
- * for Debian and Ubuntu the lpadmin group: {{{usermod -a -G lpadmin $USER}}}
-* the cups backend must have {{{0700}}} permissions: {{{chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/xpraforwarder}}}
-* selinux causes problems and must be disabled (see #815)
+* forwarding is only supported to a Posix server, support for MS Windows and OSX as ''servers'' may be added in the future.
+* OSX clients use Postscript (#995), other clients use PDF for transport.
 }}}
 
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 = Installation and platform support =
 
-* centos will require some manual work (as the required RPM packages do not exist)
 * MS Windows and OSX clients (10.6 onwards) should work out of the box
-* Fedora 20+ should work out of the box
-* Debian and Ubuntu: the dependencies are listed as "suggestions" only, so you may need to run {{{apt-get install python-cups cups-pdf}}}.
-
-Usually, you will just need [http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/pycups/ python-cups] and [http://www.cups-pdf.de/ cups-pdf].
+* [https://www.centos.org/ CentOS] requires manual setup to support OSX client as the [http://www.cups-pdf.de/ cups-pdf] package is not available in the default repositories
+* Debian and Ubuntu: the dependencies are listed as "suggestions" only, so you 
+may need to run {{{apt-get install cups-filters cups-common cups-pdf python-cups}}} to install the missing pieces
+* you may encounter some permission issues: the user running the xpra server must be a printer administrator - whatever group that may be (if you need to add your user to a group you will also then need to logout and login again):
+ * for Fedora and centos the ''sys'' group: {{{gpasswd -a $USER sys}}}
+ * for Debian and Ubuntu the lpadmin group: {{{usermod -a -G lpadmin $USER}}}
+* the cups backend installed must have {{{0700}}} permissions: {{{chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/xpraforwarder}}}
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux SELinux] causes problems and must be disabled (see #815)
 }}}