Job forewarding with no processing

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the quick reply!  You guys are great.  I added the PostScript with XML header type as suggested to the two mime files.  I am getting the following error and wondered if you had any insight:

D [28/Oct/2004:12:50:44 -0600] StartJob(181, 0x808e568)
D [28/Oct/2004:12:50:44 -0600] StartJob() id = 181, file = 0/1
E [28/Oct/2004:12:50:44 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 181!
I [28/Oct/2004:12:50:44 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
D [28/Oct/2004:12:50:44 -0600] CancelJob: id = 181

I have commented and uncommented out the mime.types and the mime.convs files quite a bit over the last couple of weeks while trying to trick CUPS into just passing the files through.  Could this error be a problem with those files?

Thanks again!
Drew Johnson



pipitas wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
>
> > I work at a Print Center at a university and am interested in setting up a
> > CUPS server to accept jobs and hold them for routing to one of several
> > large network printers (Xerox DocuTech 6135) or some other printer.  The
> > problem that I am encountering is that CUPS wants to change the files more
> > often than I would like.  The jobs that are printed to the server are
> > PostScript jobs, but they have an XML header, so CUPS wants to interpert
> > them as text files.  Even without the header (a conforming PostScript
> > file), I am having some errors with files that I normally have no problems
> > with.
>
> I am not sure if I really do get what you want....
>
> If it is that CUPS shouldnt touch these files at all, then you may want
> to set up a "raw" queue: that is, a printer with no PPD associated. (You
> may need to comment out the last lines of the /etc/cups/mime.* files too,
> which are referring to "application/octet-stream").
>
> > Can anyone suggest a configuration which would ensure minimal interference
> > with the files.  {I have tried adding the XML files to the MIME type files
> > and have them process as raw, but can't seem to get that to work)
>
> Why not?
>
> First, add a mime type definition in "mime.types":
>
>  application/vnd.ps-with-xml-header    contains(0,1024,"<xml>") contains(0,1024,"<XML>")
>
> This assumes that amongst the first 1024 characters of the file there
> is contained either "<xml>" or "<XML>". Of course you can make up a
> more precise definition since you know the files you are dealing with
> better than I do.
>
> Second, add a conversion rule" in "mime.convs":
>
>   application/vnd.ps-with-xml-header  application/vnd.cups-raw   0   -
>
> This "converts" youre "vnd.ps-with-xml-header" into a "vnd.cups-raw"
> file by doing nothing at all (the "-" is the CUPS "nullfilter). This
> should ensure your special XML-headed files go directly to the printer
> (if that is what you want). Note, that here you dont need to set up a
> special raw queue. It is just that the xml-headed PS files are treated
> as "raw".
>
>
> > I am running CUPS 1.1.15.61 on SUSE Enterprise Server 8 (2.4.19).
> >
> > Thanks in advance!  CUPS is a wonderful product and KDEPrint is just what
> > we are looking for to handle our job redirecting.
>
> ;-)
>
> > Drew Johnson
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt