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Filtering Overview

There are many more combinations named in mime.convs. However, you are not limited to use the ones predefined there. You can plug in any filter you like to the CUPS framework. It must meet, or must be made to meet, some minimal requirements. If you find (or write) a cool conversion filter of some kind, make sure it complies with what CUPS needs and put in the right lines in mime.types and mime.convs; then it will work seamlessly inside CUPS.

Filter Requirements

The “CUPS requirements” for filters are simple. Take filenames or stdin as input and write to stdout. They should take these arguments:

printer

The name of the printer queue (normally this is the name of the filter being run).

job

The numeric job ID for the job being printed.

user

The string from the originating-user-name attribute.

title

The string from the job-name attribute.

copies

The numeric value from the number-copies attribute.

options

The job options.

filename

(optionally) The print request file (if missing, filters expected data fed through stdin). In most cases, it is easy to write a simple wrapper script around existing filters to make them work with CUPS.

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