Smart Printer Pfd selection

[Dave smith]

> Dave smith wrote:
> > I have a printer that will accept a pdf document directly. Our application sometimes sends text files and sometimes generates pdf. The application has no idea of the printer type (ie. does the printer support the direct print pdf option). Is it possible to setup cups so that if a print queue is passed a pdf it prints it directly without converting to postscript first? But in the case of a plain text file it does the conversion to ps.
>
> It is possible as long as the PPD file indicates that the printer
> accepts PDF directly via a cupsFilter keyword.  That said, any current
> PDF printer needs to apply all of the CUPS options itself - a
> "pdftopdf" filter is being developed by the OpenPrinting Japan team
> that will allow PDF printers to "just work" with a null (-) filter
> for application/vnd.cups-pdf.
>
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> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>
So if I am brave I can download the pdf filter from here..
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/opfc and try it ..