[KLUG Members] cups

[Dirk H Bartley]

Woo Hoo.  Persistance pays off again.

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/06/jsmeix_print-cups-filters.html

I ended up moving /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops to texttops.orig and
repacing it with a bash script that did a similar thing with mpage as
before if > 80 char wide and calling texttops.orig if over 80.  Man,
ain't open wonderful!!!

Dirk

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:50, Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> 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
> 
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