[KLUG Members] cups

[Dirk H Bartley]

Greetings

I am currently using cups v 1.1.20 on a suse 9.1 pro installation have a
couple of tasks I would like to accomplish.  These are two tasks that I
accomplished on a Redhat7.1 machine in the past.  I modified the bash
filter located at /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/asc-to-printer.fpi.  The
modification was to use wc -L to test for the max width of a text
request and then used it's output to determine the value of the -W
option in the mpage command.  The result was wider documents were
printed 130 wide and 80 character or less requests were printed 80
wide.  Is it possible to accomplish this with cups?

I've spent 10 hours or so searching the newsgroup archives and have yet
to find any lpoptions that look like they would work.  I can
successfully create a printer that will work either way and am
searching for a way to base the width of the postscript output on the
width of the text input.  Would putting a perl script wrapper in place
of the texttops filter be a possible effective solution?  Is there a way
to edit a ppd file to achieve these results.  Is there a specific driver
that already has this as an option.  I am using HP Laserjet models from
4000 to 4100.

The second task should be an easy one but have not yet come across the
answer.  For a couple of printers I would like to send duplicate jobs to
a different printer.  What is the way to achieve this.

Thank You in advance for the help

Dirk