Using MIME types to force raw printing

[Helge Blischke]

ms at psa-systeme.de wrote:
> 
> I tried to use a custom MIME type to force raw printing for files, which contain Kyocera Prescribe commands (Kyocera's proprietary PDL).
> 
> I found that there is an undocumented feature of CUPS concerning the /etc/cups/*.mimes configuration file:
> 
> CUPS seems to treat everything which is declared as a MIME type like "text/*" as text/plain. As long as I stuck to my MIME definition as "text/prescribe", my conversion rule was not executed (auto-typing still recognized my file as text/plain and converted it to postscript).
> 
> I had to name my MIME type as "application/prescribe" to make that work.

Well, as the mime types are sorted alphabetically for testing, 
text/plain is checked prior to text/prescribe, and presumably
the prescribe files match the rules for text/plain. don't they?

Helge

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