[cups.general] Changes to filters in 1.4

[Matt LaPlante]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> This is an Ubuntu issue, not CUPS...
>

So the implication then is that non-ubuntu versions of cups 1.4.3 do
not require printers to have Filter lines?

> On Jul 26, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Matt LaPlante wrote:
>
>> I'm attempting to upgrade an existing server from 1.3 to 1.4 (Ubuntu
>> versions).
>>
>> The problem I've run into is that printing to any of the existing
>> printers results in cups throwing an error that the type is unknown
>> (postscript or raw).  This used to just work, and the
>> mime.types/mime.convs do have application/vnd.cups-raw etc
>> uncommented.
>>
>> I re-created one of the existing printer configs using the UI, and I
>> noticed that now it's inserting Filter directives in printers.conf
>> where there were not previously any.  This indeed seems to fix the
>> problem of unknown types.  But why is it necessary, and where is it
>> documented that this changed?  The release notes don't mention it (at
>> least in a way that's apparent to me).  Why isn't having these types
>> in mime.* enough anymore?
>>
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