CUPS Fax Backend Howto?

[Helge Blischke]

Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> /me wrote:
> 
>> > Second, I'd suggest to do all the necessary conversions in a filter,
>> > say pstocapifax, and specify this filter in the PPD as follows:
>> > *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstocapifax"
>>
>> I tried that but it didn't work. With the above line in the PPD, when I
>> print a PDF file, CUPS runs the filter "pstops", as witnessed by the CUPS
>> error_log:
> 
> Scrap that. My fault. I hadn't recreated the print queue, so CUPS was
> still using the old PPD. Sorry for the noise.
> 
> Tilman

.... for specifying options interactively, either use the desktop utility
provided by KDE or Gnome, or install a utility like xpp, which permits 
arbitrary option to be specified.

Helge