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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