which filter for my driver?

[Michael Sweet]

greg strockbine wrote:
> seeing as how much trouble I'm
> having with pstoraster, I wonder
> what other people will do when
> they try to use my driver on their
> own system.
> 
> In the documentation it states that
> a cups-raster filter is the quickest
> way to get one's printer working.
> 
> I can see how that works fine for graphics
> files, but how do I route a text file into
> this pipeline?

On Linux/UNIX, text files are converted to PostScript and RIP'd if
the driver doesn't provide a text/plain filter.

> Is there another filter?  If so how would
> I specify that and how to route it into
> cups-raster?

Use the cupsFilter attribute to provide a text/plain filter if
your printer supports plain text, otherwise you can rely on the
CUPS filter chain to convert it for you.

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