[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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