[cups] cups filter to decompress jobs before spooling/acceptance?

Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu
Tue Aug 25 17:11:06 PDT 2015


In regard to: Re: [cups] cups filter to decompress jobs before...:

>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> All-
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>> I have lots of experience with printing, but I'm relatively new to using
>> CUPS in a large-scale environment, so this may be a rather basic question.
>> My apologies if that's the case.  I'm willing to RTFM, I just need to find
>> the right manual to read.
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's possible to add a filter to cups to automatically
>> un-gzip an IPP print job that comes in with compression=gzip, *before*
>> it's written as a data file to /var/spool/cups?
>
> Nope, that's the purpose of the gziptoany filter in the chain when
> printing starts.

Ok, thanks Michael.  I was kind of afraid of that, based on the reading
I've done so far.

Tim
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