Writing a filter

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon May 26 05:45:05 PDT 2008


shermin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to write a filter for our printer.I check with the filters provided with CUPS 1.2 Source.In those .c files,main is taking some command line arguments.These values how will we get to the filter file.Also the 7th argument is a file name.Which is the file that is mentioned here???
> 
> Please reply.I am new to this area.

The CUPS book covers this in some detail, as does the filter
programming documentation included with CUPS:

     http://www.cups.org/book
     http://localhost:631/help/api-filter.html
     http://www.cups.org/documentation/api-filter.html

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