How to create PS-to-file queue in CUPS 1.4, OS X 10.6

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Sep 10 06:48:08 PDT 2009


Ben BW wrote:

>> Ben BW wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to use the backend described here:
>> > http://osdir.com/ml/printing.cups.devel/2004-10/msg00007.html
>> >
>> > to create a PostScript print-to-file print queue.
>> >
>> > However, Snow Leopard and CUPS 1.4 seems to have "improved" security,
>> > and I can't get the backend to work. It has also broken Adobe's
>> > PDF-generating print queue -- part of Acrobat.
>> >
>> > I'm surprised that it isn't easier to use CUPS to create a PS-to-file
>> > print queue, and also that there seems to be very little info on how to
>> > achieve it.
>> >
>> > The printing seems to work fine, but no file is produced and no errors
>> > are reported.
>> >
>> >> I think I'm misinterpreting how to implement the bit at the end which
>> >> says:
>> >>A more advanced "dirwrite" would write into a target directory
>> >> that you specify as a device URI like here "dir:/tmp/cupsfiles/"
>> >>
>> >> The magic line for this would be to use
>> >>
>> >>TARGETFILE=${DEVICE_URI#dir:}
>> >
>> > Any thoughts/advice?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>> I'm just writing a print-to-file backend (which permits, in addition, to
>> save the print job in a variety of file formats conveted to by e.g.
>> pstoany), which changes its identity to the owner / group of the
>> destination directory of the file to be written. I'm going to do my tests
>> on both a SuSE 11.1 and Mac OS 10.5, and I think I can release it
>> for bet testing at the beginning of next week.
>>
>> Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.
>>
>> Helge
>>
>> P.S.: the final version will be published at sourceforge.
> 
> Errrr.. I can't find a way to get your email address from this forum.
> Obviously, you probably don't want to post it in plain view. I googled
> your name, and tried sending something to H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de, but
> that didn't work. Do you want to let me know the name of your project, and
> I'll look it up on sourceforge when it goes live?

Didn't you read the e-mail address in the message header?
Anyway, try   h.blischke at acm.org .

Helge





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