Re: [rox-devel] Printing (was Re: my wish list for rox)

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:34:53PM +0100, Stephen Watson wrote:
> In message <200...@ev...>
>           Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> scribbled:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:13:23AM +0100, Stephen Watson wrote:
> > > I did think of having a Choices directory called MIME-print-ps which
> > > would contain scripts or links to filters capable of generating
> > > Postscript from various mime types.
> > 
> > Can't lpr do this itself anyway?
> 
> Possibly.  I've got lp here instead.
> 
> > Or, you could just send it through a2ps
> > and let that sort everything out... (it seems to deal well with just about
> > everything ;-) 'enscript' is similar, I think.
> 
> I don't have either of those.

Oh. Another way to do it is ask the filer what the type is and get the
application from Choices/MIME-types. If it's an app dir, look in
AppInfo.xml to see if it can be used as a print filter...

That way, documents get printed by the same application that loads them.
You could still fall back on enscript or a2ps if the app doesn't support
printing...


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