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

Helge Blicke helgeblischke at web.de
Tue Dec 12 03:55:36 PST 2017


Sorry, must be
relaxed

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 12.12.2017 um 12:54 schrieb Helge Blicke <helgeblischke at web.de>:
> 
> 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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>> Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)
>> 
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