[cups.development] Create a virtual postscript printer

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Feb 20 01:08 Beat Wolf wrote (shortened):
> ... create a virutal printer, that takes the print job and saves the
> postscript file to a specific folder, and launches an application afterwards.

It is not possible to be implemented in the printing system,
it must be implemented in the application, see
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-02/msg00036.html

How should a service (here the printing system) launch an application
on the user's desktop on the user's workstation when the service
runs as different user on a different machine in the network?

It must be implemented the other way round:
The client initiates the access to the server.
Not the server initiates an access to a client.

Nobody would allow arbitraty programs running as arbitraty users
on arbitraty machines to access his own workstation or even his
own personal environment - or is there somewhere an operating system
out there which allows such nonsense?
;-)


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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