pkipplib is a Python library which can prepare IPP requests with the
help of a somewhat high level API. These requests can then be sent to
an IPP printer or print server (e.g. CUPS). This library can also parse
IPP answers received, and create high level Python objects from them.
pkpgcounter is a generic Page Description Language parser which can
either count the number of pages or compute the percent of ink coverage
needed to print various types of documents.
It currently supports the following file types:
- PostScript (both DSC compliant and binary)
- PDF
- PCL3/4/5
- PCLXL (aka PCL6)
- DVI
- TIFF
- ESC/P2
- OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300)
- Zenographics ZjStream
- Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2)
- Samsung SPL1
The five latter ones, as well as some TIFF documents, are currently
only supported in page counting mode.
Pscal is a utility for generating Postscript calendars ready for
printing. It can optionally show the phases of the moon for either
hemisphere.
Utility that calculates the optimal placement of the pages for n-up printing
pstotext extracts ASCII text from PostScript and PDF files. It
uses Ghostscript, but does a more careful job with kerned characters
and nonstandard font encodings than Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility.
PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient generation of
rich text format documents. It has good support for tables and
tries to maintain compatibility with as many RTF readers as possible.
Tiny RML2PDF is a component of the Open Report project. It can be used with the
Tiny Reporting Server to have a complete solution to render PDF file on the
fly.
SpliX is a set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language)
printers. Below is a non-exhaustive list of currently supported printers.
Manufacturer Model State
Dell 1100 Works
Dell 1110 Works
Samsung CLP-200 Untested
Samsung CLP-300 Works
Samsung CLP-500 Works
Samsung CLP-510 Works
Samsung CLP-550 Works
Samsung CLP-600 Untested
Samsung CLP-610 Untested
Samsung CLX-216X Works
Samsung CLX-2170 Untested
Samsung CLX-3160 Works
Samsung ML-1510 Works
Samsung ML-1520 Works
Samsung ML-1610 Works
Samsung ML-1630 Works
Samsung ML-1640 Works
Samsung ML-1710 Works
Samsung ML-1740 Works
Samsung ML-1750 Works
Samsung ML-2010 Works
Samsung ML-2150 Untested
Samsung ML-2250 Works
Samsung ML-2251 Works
Samsung ML-2510 Works
Samsung ML-2570 Works
Samsung ML-2550 Works
Samsung ML-3050 Untested
Samsung ML-3560 Works
Samsung SCX-4200 Works
Samsung SCX-4500 Works
Xerox Phaser 3115 Untested
Xerox Phaser 3116 Untested
Xerox Phaser 3117 Works
Xerox Phaser 3120 Untested
Xerox Phaser 3121 Works
Xerox Phaser 3122 Untested
Xerox Phaser 3130 Works
Xerox Phaser 3150 Untested
Xerox Phaser 3160 Works
Xerox Phaser 3420 Untested
Xerox Phaser 3425 Untested
Xerox Phaser 5500 Untested
Xerox Phaser 6100 Works
Xerox Phaser 6110 Works
Xerox WorkCentre 3119 Untested
flpsed is a WYSIWYG PostScript annotator. flpsed can add arbitrary text lines
to existing PostScript documents, but cannot remove or modify existing elements
of such documents. The added lines can later be re-edited with flpsed, either
interactively or via batch-processing (the latter is useful for repeatedly
filling in forms). Text lines can also be imported from other documents that
have been modified with flpsed.
Using pdftops, which is part of xpdf, one can convert PDF documents to
PostScript and then add text to them using flpsed. flpsed is thus useful for
filling in forms, adding notes, etc.