About:
pdq is a direct replacement of lpr. Adding and configuring printers does not require root privilege. Jobs can be monitored through completion, job status can be checked *after* completion. Users can create custom command line options to set features such as tray selection, color mode, and print quality options. xpdq provides a graphical GTK based interface to simplify printer and option selection, and provides a wizard for printer installation.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
Status can now be set by driver/interface scripts, better cancel support, a comprehensive set of ghostscript drivers, cosmetic changes to the GTK interface (xpdq), bugfixes, and nice status messages when printing to remote LPD printer.

Author:
Jacob A. Langford <langford (at) uiuc (dot) edu> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.31/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://pdq.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://pdq.sourceforge.net/ftp/pdq-2.2.1.tgz

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Printing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.2.1	27-Mar-2000	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.2.1	N/A	27-Mar-2000 22:03
2.1.2	N/A	04-Feb-2000 22:05
2.1.2	N/A	18-Jan-2000 19:09
2.1.1	N/A	22-May-1999 16:11

 Articles referencing this project

• Printing Software
  by Grant Taylor , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Sep 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Resurrect pdq
by Jeremy C. Reed - Jun 14th 2006 19:48:34

Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdq/. I have imported the code into cvs and starting to make updates. Also I added a mailing list for discussion.

pdq works fine. By using foomatic it can support same printers as cups or lprng.

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