Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-11-01 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I know that many people were very frustrated when upstream broke foomatic-rip for LPD users. Thanks to Antoine Jacoutot many of us will be CUPS free for years to come. I am leaving internet trace for people who would be looking for the info but Antoine documentation /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readme

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:26:32AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > To be sure: you only need foomatic to pass the _options_, right? That was my intent, yes. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:36:13AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > Quoting directly from printcap(5): [snip] > I don't think there is some other w

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-27 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 24 16:51:22, j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:36:35PM +0100, Andr?? St??be wrote: > > > I had a similar setup some time ago. If I remember correctly, you can > > use lpr's -J option to pass options to foomatic-rip. > > Thank you, Andre'. > > I haven't found that

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-27 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 24 11:38:40, j...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote: > I'm currently using foomatic-rip with lpd(8) for standard print, but find > myself using foomatic-rip directly, without spooling, when I need to set > a print option such as papersize or InputPort (tray). > > I am not using apsfilter, which use

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-25 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:03:27AM +0100, Andr?? St??be wrote: > Josh Grosse wrote: > > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > > operand does work with print options when printing directly. > > Are you sure? I've used this in conjunction with the options defi

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-25 Thread André Stöbe
Josh Grosse wrote: > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > operand does work with print options when printing directly. Are you sure? I've used this in conjunction with the options defined in the PPD file. Try "foomatic-ppd-options /etc/foomatic/hp-lj_300_4

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-24 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:51:22PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o > operand does work with print options when printing directly. To be clear, the symptom is that -J has no effect. No errors or warnings are produce in lpd-e

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-24 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:36:35PM +0100, Andr?? St??be wrote: > I had a similar setup some time ago. If I remember correctly, you can > use lpr's -J option to pass options to foomatic-rip. Thank you, Andre'. I haven't found that the -J option works for me. OTOH, the foomatic-rip -o operand doe

Re: Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-24 Thread André Stöbe
Josh Grosse wrote: > I'm currently using foomatic-rip with lpd(8) for standard print, but find > myself using foomatic-rip directly, without spooling, when I need to set > a print option such as papersize or InputPort (tray). > > I am not using apsfilter, which uses lpr(1)'s -C option to pass pr

Best practice for CUPS-less foomatic use?

2014-02-24 Thread Josh Grosse
I'm currently using foomatic-rip with lpd(8) for standard print, but find myself using foomatic-rip directly, without spooling, when I need to set a print option such as papersize or InputPort (tray). I am not using apsfilter, which uses lpr(1)'s -C option to pass print options, as I am using th