cups-filters Second Generation - Release Candidate!
Release approaching - Page orientation, image scaling, text in landscape, 16-bit color and 1-bit mono, API adjustment for libcups3, color on color printers fast …
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OpenPrinting News - March 2023
LAS 2023 in Brno, GUADEC 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, cups-filters 2.x in Ubuntu 23.04, libcupsfilters with libcups 3.x, CPDB 2.0b4, cups-browsed 2.0b4
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - Forth Beta Release!
Forth beta to add build tests (make check), development tools get built and installed the standard way.
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