Re: reply:StarOffice,printing and dj, again!

[tony mollica <tmollica@sb.net>]

Jens.  Here's a twist.  I've attached a short text
file clipped from the Linux Printing Howto.  Apparently, the input
filter is not run when printing to remote printers.  The clip describes
setting up a double print queue in order to run the input filter, but still
no luck.  I'm not sure I understand what needs to be done to make
the double queue work properly.  Have you seen any setup like the
one in the clip before?

tony mollica
tmollica@sb.net
 

  10.8.  Running an if for remote printers

  One oddity of lpd is that the if is not run for remote printers.  If
  you find that you need to run an if, you can do so by setting up a
  double queue and requeueing the job.  As an example, consider this
  printcap:

       lj-5:remote-hplj:\
               :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
               :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5:\
               :if=/usr/lib/lpd/filter-lj-5:
       lj-5-remote:lp=/dev/null:sh:rm=printer.name.com:\
               :rp=raw:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5-raw:

  in light of this filter-lj-5 script:

       #!/bin/sh
       gs <options> -q -dSAFER -sOutputFile=- - | \
               lpr -Plj-5-remote -U$5

  The -U option to lpr only works if lpr is run as daemon, and it sets
  the submitter's name for the job in the resubmitted queue correctly.
  You should probably use a more robust method of getting the username,
  since in some cases it is not argument 5.  See the man page for
  printcap.