controlling font, size and orientation of samba text jobs

Steve Hanselman steveh at brendata.co.uk
Thu Aug 17 02:48:23 PDT 2006


Hi,

we run a number of old DOS applications that spool output through Samba, I have a print filter that takes this text, runs it through enscript with various options depending on the queue, landscape, font size, number up etc.

This was fine on the old printing system on RH7.1, but I'm struggling to see the correct way to do this with CUPS.

The only way I can see to do this is to generate a queue for each, don't use the normal ppd's but use the foomatic ones and then add a cupsFilter entry for text/plain to point to my filter, is this the correct way or is there a way of either setting these attributes for texttops on a per queue basis or using the standard ppd and having a filter override on that?

Steve





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