Re: Re: Re: Re: How to replicate old LPD filter functionality?

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> For an example of a simple backend (this one does the conversion
> of any printjob to PDF and stores it somewhere) look at the "distiller"
> script at
> 
>   http://printing.kde.org/downloads/

Kurt -- that's the tip I needed!  It was easy to modify ps2pdf to act as an 
interface to my legacy LPD application.  What's more, the backend runs as root 
which simplifies a lot of things, but makes me wonder if that's recommended (my 
CUPS installation came courtesy of a dependency when installing the Samba 
package).

The URI feature CUPS device specifications is nice.  This allows me to extend 
my application far more easily than doing it the old "lpd filter" way.

Thank you!

--Morgan