Trying to debug a printerdriver..

[Michael Sweet]

Johan Henselmans wrote:
> ...
> Now my theory would be that I would call:
> /usr/lib64/cups/filter/texttops job-id johan title 1 options 
> rastertoboca.c | /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoraster | ./rastertoboca | less
> 
> and would see the debug output. Alas, I only see DEBUG2 output from the 
> previous steps. What am I doing wrong? Did I miss something?

You'll want to send stdout to a file and pipe stderr into less (or
just redirect stderr to a file and less/more it afterwards)

Also, make sure you set the PPD environment variable to the PPD file
for your driver so the filters know what kind of raster data to
produce.

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