using our own filter to print psutils output

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Mon Jan 22 06:20:14 PST 2007


Waltraut Niepraschk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a cups newcomer. We have trouble to print files produced with
> psutils. The lines
>    /setpagedevice {pop}bind 1 index where{dup wcheck{3 1 roll put}
>     {pop def}ifelse}{def}ifelse
> cause the problems.
> 
> It is possible to add a new mime.type entry and a rule in mime.convs
> to get the correct output on the cups server. I add the line
> <</Tumble true>> setpagedevice
> and send the output without pstops with application/vnd.cups-raw
> to the printer. This works on the server.
> 
> I add the same entries on the client.
> But on the client (with a running cupsd) the command
>  lp -o document-format=application/myownform psutils-job
> doesn't work, because the filter rule was not used,
>  not on the client and not on the server
> 
> What can I do?
> How do you solve this problem. The psutils tools are very popular.
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Waltraut
> 

I've done things like this a several times with success.
How do your mime.types and mime.convs files now look like?

Helge

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