[cups.general] Re: number-up > 1 incompatibel with foomatic? [was: Blank pageswhenprinter ]

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 27 14:28 Helge Blischke wrote (shortened):
> Well, as Mozilla emits a header comment like
> ---snip---
> %%Creator: Mozilla PostScript module (rv:1.6/2004011400)
> ---snip---
> I think a better way to settle this issue would be to introduce
> a mime type
> application/mozilla, which will then be checked before
> application/postscript.

We already do it, see for example
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/03/jsmeix_print-einrichten-91.html
"Printing from Mozilla:"
and
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/06/jsmeix_print-cups-filters.html#Filter

> The mime.convs file could then define a filter, say mozillatopdf,
> which converts the mozilla PS code to a PDF using Ghostscript;
> the PDF in turn would then processed as usual by the rest of
> the CUPS filter chain, and everybody should be happy.

At the moment we convert to PostScript level 2 or 1 via "pswrite".
You suggest to convert to PDF via "pdfwrite".
If I understand you correctly then by using PDF all the options
of CUPS's pstops should work.
I will test it.

Isn't the additional PDF->PostScript processing in CUPS via pdftops
much slower than starting directly with PostScript?


Regards
Johannes Meixner
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