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Linux-Kongress 2002, Cologne/Germany:
Tutorial on CUPS and Foomatic

These are the handout documents Till and Kurt had prepared for their tutorial on CUPS and Foomatic, held at "Linux-Kongress 2002" in Cologne/Germany (4th Sept 2002).

Browse Online HTML	Browse Online or Download PDF	(Size)	Download Source Tarball	(Size)
I. KDE GUI for CUPS	I.LinuxKongress-2002-kdeprint.pdf	808 kBytes	I.LinuxKongress-2002-kdeprint.tar.gz	492 kBytes
II. Foomatic for Users	II.Foomatic-User.pdf	516 kBytes	II.Foomatic-User.tar.gz	300 kBytes
III. PostScript and PPDs	III.PostScript-and-PPDs.pdf	364 kBytes	III.PostScript-and-PPDs.tar.gz	16 kBytes
IV. Foomatic for Developers	IV.Foomatic-Developer.pdf	424 kBytes	IV.Foomatic-Developer.tar.gz	68 kBytes
V. CUPS Filtering Architecture	V.CUPS-Filtering-Architecture.pdf	436 kBytes	V.CUPS-Filtering-Architecture.tar.gz	28 kBytes
VI CUPS Connections	VI.CUPS-Connections.pdf	336 kBytes	VI.CUPS-Connections.tar.gz	32 kBytes
VII. CUPS Help HOWTO	VII.cups-help.pdf	460 kBytes	VII.cups-help.tar.gz	16 kBytes
VIII. How to Contribute	VIII.Foomatic-Contribution.pdf	272 kBytes	VIII.Foomatic-Contribution.tar.gz	12 kBytes
IX. Printing with CUPS and Samba	IX.CUPS-Samba.pdf	456 kBytes	IX.CUPS-Samba.tar.gz	16 kBytes

The tutorial handouts have been written in HTML. PDF versions of the documents have been produced by the marvellous tool "htmldoc". htmldoc is developed by Easy Software Products, the creators of now famous CUPS. It is able to transform HTML input files into PDF, PostScript or indexed HTML output.

htmldoc is GPL software. It runs on Linux, many Unices and even MS Windows. There is a GUI and a commandline version. You can use it as a CGI program running on your webserver, offering PDF production to your visitors.

You can save the settings of the GUI version into a so-called ".book" file. This *.book file can later be used as your base for commandline or batch-producing PDF. Obtain htmldoc from http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/

For equal results use htmldoc version 1.8.22. For example, for easy reproduction of the "I.LinuxKongress-2002-kdeprint.pdf" just use the command

   htmldoc --batch I.LinuxKongress-2002-kdeprint.book

in the directory where you have saved the named *.book and all HTML and *.png source files. If you want the dialog controlled setup, use the command

   htmldoc I.LinuxKongress-2002-kdeprint.book

and you can play with the settings (like change the PDF to be produced for letter size paper print, and much more).

The PDFs have the fonts used embedded, to make sure they display and print OK, not only with Acrobat Reader, but also with other PDF viewers (like gv or Ghostview). This makes the files a bit larger. To safe space and bandwidth, you can use the Tarballs. They include the HTML source files and images used. If you download the Source-Tarballs, you can generate your own PDF by using the same utility as we did: "htmldoc". Each tarball includes a "*.book" file which contains all settings used in our PDFs. Load this *.book-file into htmldoc to get the same PDF as we offer here.