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From: "David M. Plummer" <dplummer@cox.rr.com>
To: "'Joel Mc Graw'" <jpmcgraw1@home.com>
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Subject: RE: lpr - remote printing
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:15:43 -0500
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There's no need to dig around in source code. Apsfilter handles this for
you. Check out http://www.apsfilter.org/.

Hope this helps
Dave Plummer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alfred
> Perlstein
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 10:03 PM
> To: Joel Mc Graw
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: lpr - remote printing
>
>
> * Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw1@home.com> [001109 19:00] wrote:
> > -Newbie alert-
> >
> > Sorry if this is way basic.
> >
> > My company has a Xerox 4850 production printer that is
> front-ended by a
> > Sparc/Solaris machine.  I've been using FreeBSD 3.1 for a
> network print
> > spooler for a while, but now I need filters (this printer does _not_
> > understand PDF, and I need to print many, many PDF files).
> >
> > It seems that the standard lpr/lpd does NOT allow one to
> use filters for
> > a remotely-hosted printer.  I know that there are alternatives (e.g.
> > LPRng), but I haven't been able to determine if they would
> allow me to
> > set up a filter that would transparently convert the file
> to PostScript.
> >
> > Any suggestions to RTFM welcome--just point me to the right FM :)
>
> Actually making APSfilter work with remote printers used to be pretty
> trivial, all I had to do was switch one variable in the source code.
>
> It's been a while, perhaps if you browsed through the APSfilter code
> you'll find it.
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
>
>
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