[cups] Printing to native XPS printers using CUPS

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Wed Nov 4 01:50:20 PST 2015


As for working filters, see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/gstoxps <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/gstoxps>
and 
http://sosurceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/xpstoodf_or_ps <http://sosurceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/xpstoodf_or_ps>

The gstoxps filter uses Ghostscript’s xpswrite device (notwithstanding the deficiencies of this device)
and consumes both PostScript and PDF (implicitly using Ghostscript’s PDF interpreter).

The xpstopdf (or xpstops) filter uses either GhostPDL’s XPS interpreter (which usually requires compiling
GhostPDL from the sources) or the xpstops and xpstopdf utilities contained in the libgxps suite, which
is supplied in some (at least Ubuntu based) Linux distributions.

Both filters have been tested using XPS printout and the XPS viewer from Windows 7 
(due to the lack of a physical XPS-only printer).


> Am 04.11.2015 um 00:52 schrieb pipitas <pipitas at gmail.com>:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com <mailto:till.kamppeter at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/03/2015 08:23 PM, pipitas wrote:
>> 
>>> Also, Evince and Okular can display XPS...
>>> 
>>> Overall, I think if there was a well-working XPS-to-anything print system
>>> capable of running on Linux, this would increase the chance for competing
>>> with Windows-based print servers serving Windows clients in certain
>>> environments, and it would probably also be beneficial for speed and
>>> overall performance of such an environment (because it could avoid
>>> required steps on the client side).
>>> 
>> 
>> Kurt, I was thinking about generating XPS, not consuming XPS, for
>> supporting XPS+GDI-only printers, like Konica Minolta.
>> 
> 
> Yes, sorry. I highlighted only one side of that topic, and then in the ennd
> forgot to pick up the other end of the thread.
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