[cups.general] Printing text files to a postscript only printer.

Kaze kaze at packhouse.org
Thu Feb 17 12:09:04 PST 2005


mrl wrote:

> I have a Xerox Phaser 8200 that only accepts postscript, and not text
> files (unlike my HP printers).  Can I configure CUPs so that it can
> automatically convert text files to ps, that are printed via the lpr
> command?  I want to avoid having to manually use a converter like
> enscript.   I'm using Redhat Enterprise 3, FWIW.  Thanks. -  Mark

CUPS should come with a filter called texttops which should do exactly that.





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