Printer Alias

[Ciro Iriarte]

>
> Hello,
>
> On Feb 19 11:03 Helge Blischke wrote (shortened):
> > Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> > >
> > > have a laser printer working with cups and a spool for pdf creation too,
> > > i would like to send jobs, lets say, to the reports spool, and this will
> > > send a copy to the real printer and another to the pdf creator script.
> >
> > write a backend script that temporarily saves the PostScript job,
> > feeds it through your PDF creating script and issues a print (lp or lpr)
> > command for your real printer.
>
> I think a backend is wrong because it gets printer specific data.
> Even for PostScript printers the PostScript is printer specific
> (whatever 'setpagedevice' settings or JCP header and footer).
>
> To generate printer specific data and additionally a PDF, I would
> enhance the filtering system.
> I would add an additional filter step before pstops which
> works like 'tee' - i.e. generates PDF and outputs it into a file
> (or prints it to the PDF-creating queue) and forwards the original
> input to stdout (i.e. to pstops).
>
> See "CUPS Software Programmers Manual" and "man filter" and
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/06/jsmeix_print-cups-filters.html
> and
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html
>
>
> Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5      Mail: jsmeix at suse.de
> 90409 Nuernberg, Germany                    WWW: http://www.suse.de/
>

Ok, actually the people here decided to make it in two steps (first generate the pdf files and when they have time, make the paper copies), but i'll take a look.
Thanks!!