Printing documentation

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 04:00:33PM +0200, montag at informationsberatung.de wrote:
> Dear folks from the documentation,
> 
> using FreeBSD for the recent years on a daily basis on the desktop for my
> job as a self-employed information broker I'd like first of to express my
> thanks to all who work on this wonderful project.
> 
> As now pointed out on slashdot, this article (
> http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=321) is about
> easily setting up a printer.
> 
> This is the only downside of FreeBSD: The bad documentation of apsfilter
> as the easy way to printing. It would be absolutely sufficient to put this
> as chapter in the handbook - with the permission of the author of course.
> This would help the most people with installing the system. The rest may
> furtheron write printcaps and fiddle with device-names.
>

I read that article, and apart a make install in the apsfilter ports
directory and a lpd_enable="YES", there's nothing.
Sorry to say that.

The current printing chapter in the Handbook is really detailled but
does not offer a quick and simple printing configuration method for a
newcomer.  So maybe something about apsfilter is missing.  I'll see what
I can do.

Marc