Re: Printing & CUPS & filters.
Hi Olive.
> > 1. Are there anywhere repositories of cups filters in public?
> > The debian cupsys package only have some few filters
> > and supported file formats. For exapmle we need filters
> > for raster pcx and tga image to postscript or pcl.
> > (We had a try for writing these filters but they not correctly work)
> >
> See http://linuxprinting.org
Ok, ok. I try find the solving and on this site. But I imply not Foomatic "driver" but
imagetops filter which not support many image formats.
> > 2. How we can correctly solve a problem of printing of jobs
> > with not supported formats? For example reject these jobs
> > (MS World files, RTF, some images). Now these jobs print as raw
> > format. But we cannot delete support raw because have many jobs
> > in binary PCL formats created by windows drivers or other
> > not Unix systems.
> >
> I'am not sure I understand your question. You can directly print (by lpr)
> just a few formats (.ps, .pdf, perhaps a little more). If you want to print
> another document, just open it with a program that understand the file
> format and select File -> Print. openoffice is generally capable to open
> most word files.
Yes. You are right. But some users like to directly print their files as
lpr some-ms-word.doc some.rtf ... :(
and these jobs print as raw. How we can protect us in this situation using
CUPS? I think that we can write some filter which will reject such jobs.
May be already exist a way which solve this.
Thanx.
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