[cups.general] Can filters (i.e. texttops) be used for postscript
Michael Kesler
kaze at packhouse.org
Sun Feb 20 19:18:59 PST 2005
mrl wrote:
> I have a Xerox postscript printer that doesn't accept text files, so
> that when I want to print a text file from the command line, I can't
> simply use lpr. Is there a way to configure it using Cups, so that text
> files are processed automatically via texttops? The only way that I've
> managed to do it, is by using foomatic, and defining it to be a generic
> postscript printer (via the REDHAT printconf command). Is there any
> other way? Thanks. - Mark
We're using filters to convert text to postscript daily. The problem
with our filters, however, is that we take LPR plain text in, and spit
out a nice pretty form, depending on certain criteria.
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