[Printing-architecture] PDF workflow, cupsaddsmb, and Windows clients

[Ira McDonald]

Hi Alex,

I've copied Mike Sweet (Apple, CUPS) and Smith Kennedy (HP, all things
printing-related) on this reply.  I hope they can reply with more detail
about
Windows printing.

But I'd like to point out that CUPS PPD API was deprecated in CUPS 1.6
and PPDs in general are deprecated legacy in CUPS 2.0.  PDF workflow
in Linux, UNIX, and elsewhere is based on generic print clients using direct
printer queries for printer capabilities and current defaults (IPP
Everywhere).

PPD-based printing solutions are destined to disappear in the future.

Cheers,
- Ira


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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+op at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there any adoption of PDF workflow in the Windows world?
> I used to have a setup like this:
> PostScript-based printers on CUPS are exported to Windows clients with
> cupsaddsmb, and happy Windows clients just point and print easily.
>
> How that I'm trying to switch my PPDs to PDF-based ones (written with PJL
> commands), this setup no longer works.
>
> Is there a solution better than uploading a manufacturer-provided driver
> for each printer? Ideally, something as automatic as current
> cupsui6/cupsps6.dll is, one that could take a PJL-based driver and build a
> UI around it to show to a Windows client?
>
> --
> -Alex
>
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