Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:02:48 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw1@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpr - remote printing Message-ID: <20001109190247.N11449@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3A0B4424.5EB9D4C7@home.com>; from jpmcgraw1@home.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:41:08PM -0700 References: <3A0B4424.5EB9D4C7@home.com>
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* 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
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