druwez

====== Druwez

Druwez <https://www.florian-diesch.de/software/druwez/>__ is a GTK based graphical printing tool written in Python.

With Druwez you can use drag & drop or the clipboard to print multiple files at once from the file manager without opening any dedicated applications.

You can optionally save print jobs to print them later (again). Only the file names but not the file content are saved in that case so you don't need much disk space.

Druwez itself can handle PDF, PNG, JPEG and SVG files. To print other file formats you can define converters. A converter is a shell command that reads a file and writes PDF, PNG, JPEG or SVG data to standard output. For each converter you define shell patters for the files it should convert.

By default Druwez use unoconv <http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/>_ as converter for various office file formats and Ghostscript <https://www.ghostscript.com/>_ for PostScript files.

Druwez works on Linux and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

License

You can use Druwez under the conditions of GPL v3 or later <COPYING.txt>_.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Requirements

• Python >= 3.6
• Python3 setuptools
• Python3 bindings for GObject introspection libraries
• GObject introspection data for GLib, GObject, Gdk, Gdk Pixbuf, Gtk, Gio and Poppler
• GTK >= 3.20

The following programs are used by the default configuration as converters. You can use Druwez without them if you don't need to print those file types or want to define your own converters.

• unoconv <http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/>_ is used by default as converter for various office file format
• Ghostscript <https://www.ghostscript.com/>_ is used by default as converter for Posrscript files

Debian-based distros

On Debian-based distros Druwez needs the following packages:

python3-gi, python3-pkg-resources, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0, gir1.2-poppler-0.18

If you install the .deb package this packages will be automatically installed if needed.

In addition you may want the following packages to get the default converters (the .deb package has a "Suggests" dependency on then):

unoconv ghostscript

.. note: Druwez needs at least Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 10 or another distro that comes with Python 3.6 or newer