[Printing-architecture] Some suggestions for the DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer support in the dialog

[Till Kamppeter]

On 06/13/2013 01:39 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> The issue here is that the other end will need to support the file formats and options you are passing.  If you supply a local PPD then cupsd will convert into a format that the other end can handle.
> 

Here one could easily restrict the support to printers with standard
PDLs so that a handful of filters is enough. Then one sends always PDF
and tell by IPP attributes which output format and which option
settings. So what one needs is the right IPP attributes to tell CUPS the
output format (instead of needing it hard-coded in a PPD).

Would be great if CUPS is capable of this, but if not, I have an idea.
One would need a pdftoany filter which calls first pdftopdf (if pdftopdf
is installed, we could leave it out on mobile) and then one of
pdftoraster+rastertopwg, pdftops, nothing, gstopxl,
pdftoraster+rastertopcl, depending on what output format was requested
by an option (IPP attribute). Problem is how to make the queue using
this filter without having a PPD with hard-coded paper sizes (perhaps
System V interface script?).

   Till