Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:14:28 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Andrew Fleming <afleming@tiger.fhsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up HP Jet direct printers Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9903180908560.26476-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <86256737.006003BA.00@tiger.fhsu.edu>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Andrew Fleming wrote:
[..]
> Now the problem. I have users complaining because they have to use two
> different names for the same printer.
> I have two ideas. Use an :if and call a script that converts everything to PS
> and sends it to the raw queen, or Have 3 entries.
> If the job is sent to the generic queen, using the :if= a script would be called
> and if the print job is PS it would then send the
> to the Post Script Queen and if it is Text it would send it to the text queen.
>
Why not have an interface script/program filter that inspects the input
stream and see whether is Postscript or text/something-else. If you
inspect Postscript files, you'll see that they have a distinctive
start:
%!PS-.....
So: If it's postscript, pass it thru' raw; if it's text/something-else do
something with the input before letting it thru' to the printer.
If you do choose to inspect the input-stream, you'll have to be careful
to inspect not just the first line, but the first several lines (10 or
so), 'cos some M$ Postscript drivers love to put junk before the
Postscript preamble.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro...
| I came, I saw, I stuck around"
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