Filter PCL jobs

[Martin Deluca]

> Martin Deluca wrote:
>
> >
> >> You need to add your own PCL filter and add a MIME type and filter
> >> definition (.convs) file for it.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help Michael!
> >
> > I found the mime type application/vnd.cups-raw that has the rule:
> > contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE=PCL")
> >
> > Looking the job trace from wireshark I review that the PJL job header
> > already contains this string, then it should apply to the PCL jobs.
> >
> > Then, I added in the mime.convs the next line:
> >
> > application/vnd.cups-raw application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 myFilter.sh
> >
> > Then I restarted the CUPS Server.
> > But the filter is not being called. I have no idea about how to check the
> > mime type. The CUPS log is not telling it to me, jsut saying that the job
> > is going to the backend correctly without pass through any filter. Do you
> > know how can I check it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Martin.
>
> By design "application/vnd.cups-raw" jobs are forwyrded directly to the
> respective backend.
> Define e.g.a mime type
> application/pcl   prn contains(0,4096,"LANGUAGE=PCL")
> and a conversion rule
> application/pcl application/[vnd.cups-]postscript 66 myFilter.sh
> in the respecive files (better, in your one my.types and my.convs).
> As "pcl" sorts lesically before "vnd", this will work without modifying
> the rest.
> In the conversion rule, obmit the part I set in brackets, if you need
> to fed your filter's output into the pstops filter as well.
>
> Helge
>


Thanks Helge, it's working properly now.