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

[Daniel Birns]

Hi,

I haven't figured out how to search the cups mailing list.  Perhaps  
you could advise me on this?  So I don't know how to look at  
yesterday's submissions to the mailling list.

--Daniel
On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Jerome Alet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:16:17PM -0800, Daniel Birns wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> Look at the different messages about tea4cups sent to this
> mailing list yesterday. Simply use tea4cups:// as your
> pseudo printer's Device URI and then plug into it any shell script
> or executable which will only take care of sending the print
> job's datas to wherever you want. No need to modify or create
> a PPD, no need to write a filter.
>
> hth
>
> Jerome Alet
>
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