[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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