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@ -11,19 +11,17 @@ A minority of printers support only PCL and/or their own proprietary formats, th
## Format support ## Format support
In order to work with more printers, SeaPrint can use `poppler-utils` (pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftocairo) to convert PDFs.
For PDFs or plaintext, your printer needs to support one of the following formats: For PDFs or plaintext, your printer needs to support one of the following formats:
* PDF * PDF
* Postscript (needs poppler-utils) * Postscript
* PWG-raster (needs poppler-utils) * PWG-raster
* URF-raster (needs poppler-utils) * URF-raster
For Postscript, your printer needs to support Postscript natively. For Postscript, your printer needs to support Postscript natively. (SeaPrint just sends it as-is)
For printing "Office" files, like .doc(x) and odt, you need to install For printing "Office" files, like .doc(x) and odt, you need to install
`calligraconverter` (from the `calligra` package in Sailfish OS 4.2 onwards). `calligraconverter` (from the `calligra` package in Sailfish OS 4.2 onwards).
Then the printer support follows that of PDF (but poppler-utils is mandatory). Then the printer support follows that of PDF.
For images, your printer needs to support one of the following formats: For images, your printer needs to support one of the following formats:
* PNG * PNG
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* PWG-raster * PWG-raster
* URF-raster * URF-raster
* PDF * PDF
* Postscript (needs poppler-utils) * Postscript
For printing JPEG images, transferring the unaltered image has priority and the printer does the scaling. For printing JPEG images, transferring the unaltered image has priority and the printer does the scaling.
Other image formats are lossless and SeaPrint does scale-and-rotate to fit, so JPEG has lowest prio there. Other image formats are lossless and SeaPrint does scale-and-rotate to fit, so JPEG has lowest prio there.
Printers with any of these IPP certifications/sub-standards should likely be supported: Printers with any of these IPP certifications and derivative standards should likely be supported:
* IPP Everywhere * IPP Everywhere
* AirPrint * AirPrint