new backend

[dick.kniep at lindix.nl]

Hi list,

We are a company that provides ASP solutions. We use Linux as our platform and GoGlobal as our tool to distribute the screens.

Because we don't know what kind of printer is on the receiving end (mostly Windows, cheap winprinters, certainly no postscript), we decided that it would be easiest to send a PDF over the line, and print it locally on the windows machine with gsprint. That way we simply distribute gsprint, have it installed, send the file to the windows machine, invoke (automatically) gsprint and everything is fine.

Now I would like to define a backend for cups that takes care of all this.

Has anyone on this list any experience in defining a backend? I am an experienced Python developer, so I would prefer to write the backend in Python. It would be a very simple backend, because it would simply call ghostscript to generate PDF, and next copy the PDF to the Windows machine. I would donate this to the community when it is ready.