custom filters no longer work with 1.6.1

Paul Conklin paul.conklin at cerner.com
Wed Nov 14 20:07:33 PST 2012


Done, Thanks as always Mike.  Absolutely least complex examples ever attached.  Nice to get back in the CUPS saddle again!

> Paul,
>
> Can you put together a smallish example PPD, filter, types, and convs files, and file a bug:
>
>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 2012-11-14, at 9:59 PM, Paul Conklin <paul.conklin at cerner.com> wrote:
>
> > I know i have to be missing something obvious here.  I had started to troubleshoot this a while back and got pulled into something else, so just now getting back to it.
> > I have a series of fairly complex filters because a lot of the processing I do is based on the content and type of jobs, not just the type.  therefore i have a "bypass" set up which was working fine in 1.4.8, but with 1.6.1 it quits working.  the moment i revert back to 1.4.8 it works, so i'm sure i just need to change something in my process, but I don't know what
> >
> > i am pretty sure this is my cause
> > d [14/Nov/2012:20:25:43 -0600] add_printer_formats: paul: text/plain not supported
> >
> > my config is i have a paul.types and paul.convs in /etc/cups.  I see them load and register in the log file.  the paul.types is
> >
> > the types file is just
> > application/paul
> >
> > the types is
> > <every type in mime.types including text/plain>  one example below
> > text/plain                      application/paul 0 -
> >
> > and this line in my ppd
> > *cupsFilter:    "application/paul 0 paul"
> >
> > so esentially it will pass everything to me un-touched, but something in 1.6.1 just doesn't like this setup.  Ideas?  Any help is much appreciated
> >
> > [root at localhost cups]# lp -dpaul /test.txt
> > lp: Unsupported document-format "text/plain".
> >
> >
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