From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 9:57:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D64537B4E5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA677370; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:56:55 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3A0B4424.5EB9D4C7@home.com> References: <3A0B4424.5EB9D4C7@home.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:56:52 -0500 To: Joel Mc Graw , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: lpr - remote printing Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:41 PM -0700 11/9/00, Joel Mc Graw wrote: >It seems that the standard lpr/lpd does NOT allow one to use >filters for a remotely-hosted printer. Actually, this is not true, at least not in recent versions of lpr. You mentioned you were using freebsd 3.1, and I am not sure if that includes the change to support 'if=' filters. What I do know is that there are a number of places in the documentation (such as comments in /etc/printcap) which STATE that lpd does not allow filters for remote print queues, even though lpd does support it. You might want to try setting up an 'if=' filter on the queue to the remote printer. If it does work, you're all set. If it doesn't, then contact me and I'll see if there's some easy way we could update your version of lpd without requiring that you update the entire system. (assuming your version of lpd does support 'if=' filters, then you'd probably want to use apsfilter to do the actual conversion from pdf to postscript) -- --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message