using our own filter to print psutils output

Waltraut Niepraschk waltraut.niepraschk at desy.de
Mon Jan 22 07:32:21 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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> Helge Blischke
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Sorry, yes it works. It was a typo.







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