[cups.general] Re: tiff backend

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Wed Mar 16 02:56:45 PST 2005


Anonymous wrote:
>>Good evening,
>>
>>On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:23:57PM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have successfully installed a pdf backend, now I would like to
>>>install a multipage tiff backend and create a virual printer in
>>>samba.
>>>Where can i find the right tiff backend?
>>
>><shameless plug="ON">
>>
>>I'm not sure that such a backend exists, but if you've already got
>>a tool to convert from PostScript to multipage TIFF, let's name it
>>yourps2tiff, then you could try to install this software :
>>
>>  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/Tea4CUPS/action_Presentation
>>
>>Then in Tea4CUPS' configuration file, either in the global section
>>or in a particular print queue section, just define something like
>>this :
>>
>>--- CUT ---
>>  tee_tiff : yourps2tiff <$TEADATAFILE >$TEADIRECTORY/archives/$TEAJOBID.tiff
>>--- CUT ---
>>
>>then configure your print queues from CUPS' web interface so that they
>>are managed by Tea4CUPS, now print something, and my bet is that this will
>>would fix your problem once and for all.
>>
>></shameless>
>>
>>Of curse the difficult part is to find 'yourps2tiff' :-)
>>
>>Hoping you'll like this anyway.
>>
>>Jerome Alet
>>
> 
> I have try to looking for ps2tiff but I have only found a commercial products have you any idea where can I find it?
> Thanks a lot.
> Marco.
> 

The current ESP GhostScript 8.15.x should serve, too:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[root at majax ~]# gs -h 2>&1 | grep tif
    t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 tiff12nc tiff24nc tiffcrle tiffg3
    tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack uniprint x11 x11alpha x11cmyk
[root at majax ~]#
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Till


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