[cups.general] Page size issues after CUPS update (1.3.8)
Veselin Kantsev
veselin at campbell-lange.net
Fri Sep 5 04:33:24 PDT 2008
Hello Thomas,
What do the 2 lines mean:
"application/postscript application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -"
"application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -" ?
Is this a way to tell CUPS not to filter the incoming jobs
and just rely on the client to do the filtering?
Regards,
Veselin
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:26:21AM -0700, Thomas Küstermann wrote:
> Michael R Sweet:
> > Basically, if you use a PostScript printer driver on the client as
> > well as the the server, the server's default settings will override
> > the settings embedded by the client's printer driver. This will *not*
> > happen when using the Windows PostScript driver, but does happen if
> > you use a PostScript PPD on a CUPS client to do local filtering, and
> > then send the already-filtered print job to a non-raw queue on the
> > server.
>
> I am highly interested in this issue. What is the difference between a Windows PostScript driver and a PostScript PPD on a Windows System?
>
> I have encountered this 'problem' here too and solved it by altering these line in mime.convs:
>
> 1. application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 pstops
> 2. application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raster 100 pstoraster
>
> to
>
> 1. application/postscript application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
> 2. application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
>
> Are there any side effect I should pay attention to?
>
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