controlling font, size and orientation of samba text jobs

Steve Hanselman steveh at brendata.co.uk
Thu Aug 17 02:53:39 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
>

Just seen the probably answer (even though I searched before I posted - honest!!!) queue specific filter as a search will find this.





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