News archive

  • 14 January 2004: 009 gamma available
    The 009 gamma builds of Xprint are now available, including various fixes since the last trunk builds and TrueType/Opentype font support has now been enabled by default for Solaris and AIX.
    The new builds (
    i386 RPM, i386 Linux tarball, etc.) made available are not a milestone release (yet).
    Downloads can be found here...

  • 19 December 2003: 009 beta nightly builds available
    Today we finished a new set of builds of the Xprint 009 trunk which adds various new features, including an all-new font download engine for the PostScript DDX which can download TrueType/OpenType/PS Type42/PS Type 1 fonts to any PostScript Level 2/3 printer as smoothed+optimised PS Type1/3 outline data, better support for CUPS, PDF output and support for the XTT font API extensions.
    The new builds (i386 RPM, i386 Linux tarball, etc.) made available are not a milestone release.
    Downloads can be found here...

  • 28 November 2003: New 009 trunk nightly builds available
    Today we finished the a new set of experimental nightly builds of the Xprint 009 trunk which adds various new features, including an all-new font download engine for the PostScript DDX which can download TrueType/OpenType/PS Type42/PS Type 1 fonts to any PostScript Level 2/3 printer as smoothed+optimised outline data, better support for CUPS and PDF output.
    The new builds (i386 RPM, i386 Linux tarball, etc.) made available are not a milestone release.
    Downloads can be found here...

  • 4 August 2003: FAQ converted to DocBook
    The Xprint FAQ has been converted to DocBook/XML.
    If you find any differences between the old plaintext FAQ and the new DocBook/XML version please report it to bug 2050.

  • 11 July 2003: "Ancalagon" 009 prototype released
    Today we finished the first builds of the new Xprint "
    Ancalagon" 009 prototype which adds various new features, including an all-new font download engine for the PostScript DDX which can download TrueType/OpenType/PS Type 1 fonts to any PostScript Level 2/3 printer as smoothed+optimised outline data.
    The test builds (i386 RPM, i386 Linux tarball, etc.) made available are not a milestone release, however the feedback from users will decide whether the new font download engine will be enabled by default in the final 009 release or not.
    Downloads can be found here...

  • 7 July 2003: xprint.mozdev.org site services temporary offline
    Due the recent attack against the server which hosts xprint.mozdev.org various services (including the bug database and the mailinglists) are offline this week.

  • 15 June 2003: xprint.mozdev.org downloads hit the 100000 barrier
    Since the project creation (2 May 2002) the packages/tarballs offered by xprint.mozdev.org were downloaded more than 100000 times:
    PackageDownloads
    AIX binary tarballs1592
    Solaris
    (binary tarballs + GISWxprintglue/GISWxprint packages)
    12467
    Linux x86
    (binary tarballs + i386 RPM packages)
    40361
    Sources
    (source tarballs and source RPM packages)
    52854
    Total107274
    Note that these statistics do not include the various vendor-specific package versions from Debian, Mandrake, etc. nor source pulls via CVS.

  • 12 May 2003: Xprint version 008 released
    Xprint version 008 has been released.

  • 2 May 2003: Happy Birthday, xprint.mozdev.org
    xprint.mozdev.org turns one - the project is now exactly one year old... :-)

  • 12 April 2003: Release 008 branched and release canidates out
    Release 008 was branched last Wednesday and today the release candidates for xprint.mozdev.org release 008 are out. Happy testing...

  • 3 April 2003: Added new PDF driver project
    Added a new project to create a PDF driver for Xprint.

  • 27 February 2003: Added new project GISWxprint
    Added a new project to provide an easy-to-install Solaris package to make Xprint available for Mozilla/Eclipse/etc. on this platform using the Xprt server build from xprint.mozdev.org sources.

  • 8 February 2003: xprint.mozdev.org server code now working on AIX
    Starting with the work in bug 3057 xprint.mozdev.org's server now works on the AIX/PPC platform ; tar.gz tarballs for AIX will follow soon...

  • 24 January 2003: Added new project GISWxprintglue
    Added a new project to provide an easy-to-install Solaris package to make Xprint available for Mozilla/Eclipse/etc. on this platform by using the Solaris version of Xprt.

  • 14 December 2002: FAQ and download area down from 9.30AM-2.00PM MET
    The machine which hosts the FAQ and the download area will be down from 9.30AM-2.00PM MET due maintaince on the powergrid in our lab.

  • 4 December 2002: Xprint version 007 released
    Xprint version 007 has been released.

  • 26 November 2002: New page layout and new FAQ version
    xprint.mozdev.org got an all-new page layout and a new version of the Xprint FAQ has been uploaded, too.

  • 19 November 2002: Mozilla's Xprint module project page is "up"
    The first raw version of Mozilla's Xprint module project page was uploaded today...

  • 16 October 2002: 1st stage of TrueType font support added to Xprint
    First stage of TrueType font support for Xprt has been added to the 008 development (e.g. release 007 will not contain this feature) trunk with bug 1439. This step added a generic TrueType rasterizer, providing TTF support for all DDX(=drivers; incl. PostScript, PCL, Raster, etc.) in one step.
    Visit the sample gallery to view the results... :)

  • 22 September 2002: Debian ships 007 release package
    Debian has released it's Xprint package (*.deb) based on the 007 release branch.

  • 21 August 2002: 007 release branch created
    The release 007 branch has been created (e.g. 007 has not been released yet, but we are close...).
    Note that the release branch will take only bug fixes and no new features.