[plug] CUPS pipe:/ Options?

[Craig Ringer]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:00 +0800, Ryan wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 08:17 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > I need to have a program handling "print" jobs.
> > 
> > CUPS provides for a pipe:/ process to handle print jobs but the
> > documentation is not clear on how to pass options to that process.
> > Nothing "telling" in the environment and no process arguments.
> 
> Consider a backend.  Here is one we prepared earlier (makes PDFs).
> 
> I know Craig made lots more changes, as did I, but all I have now is
> this original barely surviving beta :)
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> # CUPS PDF Writer Backend
> #
> # December 2002
> # Craig Ringer and Ryan Armanasco

That's scary ... I don't remember that at all ;-)

I have written a PDF writer backend for CUPS, but it was `sh' and very,
very, very ugly. "Makes perl look pretty" sort of ugly.

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Craig Ringer