[cups-devel] [UNKN] STR #4782: Raw printing multiple files no longer works (STR 1933 reappeared)

[Johannes Meixner]

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[STR New]

Regardless if raw printing or filtered printing is done:

I think one run of the backend for one job is required
to ensure that one job (with several job data files)
arrives at the backend's recipient as one single job
(and not as as many separated jobs as there are data files).

I think that one job with several job data files arrives
at the backend's recipient as one single continuous job is
required to ensure that all job's data files are printed out
continuously without any possibly intermixed other data
from other print jobs.

Assume the backend's recipient is also accessible from
other print servers then if the bakends send each data file
separately it could happen that the recipient gets the first
data file from a job form server A then the first data file
from another job from server B and so on.

In short:

I think there is a semantical difference between
# lp -d queue file1 file2 file3
versus
# lp -d queue file1 ; lp -d queue file2 ; lp -d queue file3
regardless if "raw" printing or filtered printing is done.

Because raw printing can also happen on non-raw queues via
# lp -d queue -o raw file1 file2 file3
I think that perhaps a clean and consistent implementation in CUPS
could be when the cupsd automatically inserts a dummy passthrough
filter when there is no real filter needed for a data file
so that always at least one filter is run.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4782
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