need a filter that produces postscript

ekkard gerlach jack at aiai.de
Tue Dec 13 15:08:02 PST 2005


I need a filter that produces postscript (5.x) only. Which filter in 
CUPS do that?

Why? - I want to use a samsung gdi printer installed under Suse 9.2 on a 
Suse 8.2 machine. CUPS intelligent browsing function doesn't work 
because Suse 8.2 with cups-1.1.18 sometimes generates thousands of
same printers in /etc/cups/printers.conf (endless loop). Browsing 
printer queues is disabled for this reason. So I want to make printer 
queue for Suse8.2 that produces postscript only, the I write a specific 
backend e.g. /usr/lib/cups/mybackend that includes
    cat - > lp -h rex3 -d samsung

tia
Ekkard




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