I have the same problem but I am using magicfilter.
Help please...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
>
> did you ever compare the controlfiles ?
>
> regards
> ~christoph
>
> Alex Finch schrieb:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought I would post this on the off chance someone else has the
> > same problem.
> >
> > The Problem
> > ============
> >
> > The problem I had was that print jobs submitted from client machines
> > are treated differently with respect to filtering compared to those
> > submitted on the server machine.
> >
> > To be precise I have the following arrangement:
> >
> > Several `client' machines running LPRng-3.5.3
> >
> > One server machine running LPRng-3.7.4
> >
> > The server machines has several bounce queues which pass jobs onto
> > networked printers, all of which accept postscript.
> >
> > (The idea obviously is to keep all the clever stuff in one place so it
> > is easy to manage!)
> >
> > I use the ifhp filter, configured via ifhp.conf so that it detects
> > text files and converts them to postscript using a2ps. This also allows
> > various options like duplex/simplex 2by2 etc to be implemented.
> >
> > I found that it only worked for print jobs submitted from the server
> > machine.!!!!
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ( much hair tearing later...)
> >
> > The Solution
> > ============
> >
> > I discovered that although in both cases lpd puts the file through the
> > filter, when the job originates from a client machine it calls the
> > filter with a -c option, which turns off most of what ifhp does, in
> > particular the text to ps conversion which I required.
> >
> > My solution was to replace the line
> > :filter=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp
> > in my printcap with
> > :filter=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp_wrapper.sh
> >
> > where the file /usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp_wrapper.sh is just:
> >
> > arg_list=`echo $* | sed 's/\ -c//' `
> > /usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp $arg_list
> >
> > it works !
> >
> > That's all folks!
> >
> > Alex
> > --
> >
> > Alex Finch, Research Officer, Physics Department, Lancaster University.
>
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