[cups.general] Changes to filters in 1.4

[Michael Sweet]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Matt LaPlante wrote:

> 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?

No, the implication is that non-Ubuntu versions of CUPS will have the necessary filters installed so that CUPS will see and use them...

> 
>> 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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