[cups] PDF workflow with old server?

[Helge Blischke]

> Am 16.04.2015 um 10:22 schrieb Johan Bengtsson <elijah at chalmers.se>:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
>> I’ll send you the attachments off the list (as the list handler strips off attachments):
>> pdftops						Perl script (needed at least Perl 5.8.3)
>> 			to be put into /usr/lib/cups/filter
>> pdftops.conf					configuration file, needed for the xpdf utility from footballs.com
>> 			to be put into /etc/cups (the Perl scripts reads it from there)
>> 
>> The configuration file can be empty if you use the pdftops utility from poppler-utils.
> 
> OK, I tried now, printing is fast enough. But unfortunately tray selection is
> ignored.
Looking into the sources of cuts-1.4.x, I see that the „mime.convs“ file as generated
by the configure script contains the line
application/pdf		application/vnd.cups-postscript	66	pdftops
For use with the pdftops filter from me, replace it by
application/pdf		application/postscript			66	pdftops
to make sure that the PostScript created by this pdftops filter is fed
through the stops filter, which honours all of the PDF default settings.
(The original 1.4.x pdftops filter calls the stops filter internally).

If you prefer not to modify the mime.cons file, I could easily modify my
filter script to mimic the behavior of the original pdftops filter. Let me know.
> 
> Some info: xpdf was already installed:
> 
> [root at vmtest002 log]# /usr/bin/pdftops -h
> pdftops version 3.00
> Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
> Usage: pdftops [options] <PDF-file> [<PS-file>]
>  -f <int>            : first page to print
>  -l <int>            : last page to print
>  -level1             : generate Level 1 PostScript
>  -level1sep          : generate Level 1 separable PostScript
>  -level2             : generate Level 2 PostScript
>  -level2sep          : generate Level 2 separable PostScript
>  -level3             : generate Level 3 PostScript
>  -level3sep          : generate Level 3 separable PostScript
>  -eps                : generate Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
>  -form               : generate a PostScript form
>  -opi                : generate OPI comments
>  -noembt1            : don't embed Type 1 fonts
>  -noembtt            : don't embed TrueType fonts
>  -noembcidps         : don't embed CID PostScript fonts
>  -noembcidtt         : don't embed CID TrueType fonts
>  -paper <string>     : paper size (letter, legal, A4, A3, match)
>  -paperw <int>       : paper width, in points
>  -paperh <int>       : paper height, in points
>  -nocrop             : don't crop pages to CropBox
>  -expand             : expand pages smaller than the paper size
>  -noshrink           : don't shrink pages larger than the paper size
>  -nocenter           : don't center pages smaller than the paper size
>  -duplex             : enable duplex printing
>  -opw <string>       : owner password (for encrypted files)
>  -upw <string>       : user password (for encrypted files)
>  -q                  : don't print any messages or errors
>  -cfg <string>       : configuration file to use in place of .xpdfrc
>  -v                  : print copyright and version info
>  -h                  : print usage information
>  -help               : print usage information
>  --help              : print usage information
>  -?                  : print usage information
> 
> sh-3.2$ /usr/sbin/cupsfilter  -m printer/aos-sv-305-color1 -p
> /etc/cups/ppd/aos-sv-305-color1.ppd test.pdf  | more
> DEBUG: argv[0]="cupsfilter"
> DEBUG: argv[1]="1"
> DEBUG: argv[2]="lp"
> DEBUG: argv[3]="test.pdf"
> DEBUG: argv[4]="1"
> DEBUG: argv[5]=""
> DEBUG: argv[6]="test.pdf"
> DEBUG: envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>"
> DEBUG: envp[1]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/pdf"
> DEBUG: envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
> DEBUG: envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
> DEBUG: envp[4]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
> DEBUG: envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
> DEBUG: envp[6]="LANG=en_US.UTF8"
> DEBUG: envp[7]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
> DEBUG: envp[8]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/aos-sv-305-color1.ppd"
> DEBUG: envp[9]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
> DEBUG: envp[10]="USER=lp"
> INFO: pdftops (PID 31092) started.
> NOTICE: pdftops-options: -cfg /etc/cups/pdftops.conf
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%Creator: xpdf/pdftops 3.00
> %%LanguageLevel: 2
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
> %%DocumentMedia: plain 612 792 0 () ()
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
> %%Pages: 1
> %%EndComments
> %%BeginDefaults
> %%PageMedia: plain
> %%EndDefaults
> %%BeginProlog
> %%BeginResource: procset xpdf 3.00 0
> /xpdf 75 dict def xpdf begin
> % PDF special state
> /pdfDictSize 15 def
> /pdfSetup {
>  3 1 roll 2 array astore
>  /setpagedevice where {
>    pop 3 dict begin
>      /PageSize exch def
>      /ImagingBBox null def
>      /Policies 1 dict dup begin /PageSize 3 def end def
>      { /Duplex true def } if
>    currentdict end setpagedevice
>  } {
>    pop pop
>  } ifelse
> } def
> /pdfStartPage {
>  pdfDictSize dict begin
>  /pdfFillCS [] def
>  /pdfFillXform {} def
>  /pdfStrokeCS [] def
>  /pdfStrokeXform {} def
>  /pdfFill [0] def
>  /pdfStroke [0] def
>  /pdfFillOP false def
>  /pdfStrokeOP false def
>  /pdfLastFill false def
>  /pdfLastStroke false def
>  /pdfTextMat [1 0 0 1 0 0] def
>  /pdfFontSize 0 def
>  /pdfCharSpacing 0 def
>  /pdfTextRender 0 def
>  /pdfTextRise 0 def
>  /pdfWordSpacing 0 def
>  /pdfHorizScaling 1 def
>  /pdfTextClipPath [] def
> } def
> /pdfEndPage { end } def
> % PDF color state
> 
> [cut]
> 
> Johan Bengtsson/Chalmers IT-service
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