Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:15:43 -0500 From: "David M. Plummer" <dplummer@cox.rr.com> To: "'Joel Mc Graw'" <jpmcgraw1@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: lpr - remote printing Message-ID: <000801c04acc$e4d45b80$0201a8c0@wdmp> In-Reply-To: <20001109190247.N11449@fw.wintelcom.net>
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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." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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