[cups-devel] What would be the best way to internally scan before deliver to CUPS.

[Helge Blicke]

In MacOS[X] add
Sandboxing restricted
to cupsd.conf

Helge

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 12.12.2017 um 12:42 schrieb Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de>:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Dec 11 18:27 prokash wrote (excerpt):
>> ... (laptop or iMac) ...
>> The idea is to block certain types of documents from
>> being printed over the network or on local printer.
>> 
>> Any pointers would be helpful.
> 
> Not for Mac OS but for Linux, nevertheless some basic
> ideas therein might also be applicable on Mac systems:
> 
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS
> 
> Therein see in particular the sections
> "Adding Additional Filter Stages to the Default CUPS Filter System"
> and
> "Print Job Data Specific Custom Filters"
> 
> Those additional filters would run by CUPS so that
> print jobs must have been already deliverd to CUPS
> so that this is not "scan before deliver to CUPS"
> but "scan by CUPS before deliver to printer".
> 
> I think on Mac OS CUPS is running in a "sandbox" which
> may not allow to run additional selfmade filters.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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