[cups] CUPS files for a generic distribution ?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jan 28 06:00 Pavel Troller wrote (excerpt):
> cups-2.1.2 ... I didn't find neither the test page,
> nor the typical banner files

For example have a look at "CUPS Version Upgrade" in
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/
that reads (excerpt):
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Some printing filters and back-ends are dropped in CUPS
but the new package cups-filters provides them.
So cups-filters is usually needed (recommended by RPM)
but cups-filters is not strictly required.
...
CUPS banners and the CUPS test page are no longer supported
since CUPS >= 1.6. The banners and the test page from
cups-filters must be used.
The CUPS banner files in /usr/share/cups/banners/ and the
CUPS testpage /usr/share/cups/data/testprint (which is also
a CUPS banner file type) are no longer provided in the
cups RPM because they do no longer work since CUPS >= 1.6
(see http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4120 ) because there is
no longer a filter that can convert the CUPS banner files.
Since CUPS >= 1.6 only the banner files and testpage in the
cups-filters package work via the cups-filters PDF workflow
and the  cups-filters package also provides the matching
bannertopdf filter. 
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Note that cups-filters is not from CUPS upstream
but a separated project at OpenPrinting.org:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/cups-filters


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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