[cups.general] Adding a driver for a pseudo-printer

[Daniel Birns]

Hi,

We don't have a printer, per se.  Instead we want our program to  
receive the bitmap/raster image, and send that over the net to our  
process running somewhere else, where it may print it or do something  
else with it.

We're doing this on the mac for now, but we may want it on other cups- 
supported platforms later.

I could use some help getting going with this, as there's a lot to  
learn.  If someone could simply outline the steps involved, it would  
be a great help.

 From what I've read thus far, my impression is that I have to make a  
ppd file for our printer, which would specify our filter.  There's a  
lot that I don't understand even in that summary.

I also have one question:  Can a filter become the end-of-the-line,  
so that the backend is not invoked?  Do I do this by simply  
outputting nothing?  Is there a standard way of supporting a pseudo- 
printer?

Thank you.

--Daniel
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