samba - May 2003 - Samba 3.0 HOWTO Collection: new Draft for Printing Chapters is available

[crossposting to Samba, CUPS and Linuxprinting mailing lists...]


Hi,

I have written a Draft for the new Printing Chapter of the Samba-3.0
HOWTO-Collection. It is available at

  
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-3rd-draft.html

A PDF version (for convenient printing) is at

  
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-3rd-draft.pdf

The Samba 3.0 HOWTO-Collection is due for release alongside the Samba
3.0 software release, probably sometime in May/June. The complete
collection of docus in all its draft components is already greatly
enhanced and extended, and so is the printing part. Please help
further polish it.

Please: read it - use it - test its advices & recipes - feed your
suggestions back to me. This way you can make the Samba Printing
Documentation a better one. (You may also learn a bit from it at no
cost at all... ;-)

The most recent PDF version of the complete HOWTO Collection is
(until final release) available at

   http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

(Note that this does not yet include my Samba Printing HOWTO part
I am asking you to check and test.)

The printing draft contains 15 ASCII art flowcharts trying to to
clarify and explain various aspects of Windows --> Samba printing
and of CUPS printfile processing. However, I am not able to convert
this into something "nice". So here goes the call to all who are
willing and able to help out with their abilities to use one of the
Free Software drawing or graphic programs: Please provide some better
illustrations for this important documentation.

Thanks,
Kurt

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:01:05AM +0200, Kurt Pfeifle
wrote:
> [crossposting to Samba, CUPS and Linuxprinting mailing lists...]
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have written a Draft for the new Printing Chapter of the Samba-3.0
> HOWTO-Collection. It is available at
> 
>  
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-3rd-draft.html
Very nice! Thank you!
> 
> A PDF version (for convenient printing) is at
> 
>  
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-3rd-draft.pdf
> 
> The Samba 3.0 HOWTO-Collection is due for release alongside the Samba
> 3.0 software release, probably sometime in May/June. The complete
> collection of docus in all its draft components is already greatly
> enhanced and extended, and so is the printing part. Please help
> further polish it.
Ok. We are in process to move documentation from SGML to Docbook XML (HEAD
was already converted this night, SAMBA_3_0 will follow shortly when I and
Jelmer will have time to merge that -- hopefully tonight). Please look at
it, I did some syntax fixes in CUPS Printing chapter.

> The printing draft contains 15 ASCII art flowcharts trying to to
> clarify and explain various aspects of Windows --> Samba printing
> and of CUPS printfile processing. However, I am not able to convert
> this into something "nice". So here goes the call to all who are
> willing and able to help out with their abilities to use one of the
> Free Software drawing or graphic programs: Please provide some better
> illustrations for this important documentation.
I propose to use Graphviz (www.graphviz.org) and its Dot tool for drawing
such flowcharts. I'll try to convert some of them.

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy
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Success is a journey, not a destination.