[cups.general] call a filter manually

[Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD)]

On 07/31/2010 05:43 PM, Chaos Master wrote:
> Hi I'm trying to understand the following behavior.
> 
> When I print a file with Adobe Acrobat and take the raw unfiltered output it starts something like this:
> [...]
> If I set up a printer with the generic postscript driver (GENPS.PPD, not the foomatic one), the output is something like this:
> [...]
> Now, when i manually pass the raw file to the pstops filter it starts something like this:
> [...]
How did you call pstops?

You have to specify the PPD to be used as an environment-var, so in
bash:
PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/myprinter.ppd /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops ...

hth,
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