FOOMATIC-RIP(1)FOOMATIC-RIP(1)NAMEfoomatic-rip - Universal print filter/RIP wrapper
SYNOPSIS
Spooler-less printing/CPS (older versions) filter:
foomatic-rip [-P <printer> | --ppd <ppdfile>] [-J <jobti-
tle>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] [<files>]
CUPS filter:
foomatic-rip <jobid> <user> <jobtitle> <num-
copies> <options> [<file>]
LPRng filter:
foomatic-rip--lprng [-J<jobti-
tle>] [-Z<option>=<value>[,<option>=<value>[, ...]] <ppdfile>
LPD/GNUlpr filter:
foomatic-rip [-w <number>] [-l <number>] [-x <num-
ber>] [-y <num-
ber>] [-i <num-
ber>] [-c] [-n <string>] [-h <string>] [-j|-J <jobti-
tle>|<options>] <ppdfile>
PPR RIP:
foomatic-rip [<option>=<value> [...]]
PPR interface:
foomatic-rip <queue> <destaddress> <options> <job-
break> <feed-
back> <codes> <jobname> <routing> <for> <file-
type> [<file>]
PDQ driver file generation:
foomatic-
rip [--ppd <ppdfile>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] --gen-
pdq|--appendpdq|--genrawpdq|--appendrawpdq
PDQ filter:
foomatic-
rip --pdq --ppd <ppdfile>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] <file>
CPS (newer versions) filter:
foomatic-rip--cps -P <printer> [-J <jobti-
tle>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] [<files>]
DESCRIPTIONfoomatic-rip is a universal print filter which works with
every known free software printer spooler. It has the fol-
lowing features:
o It translates PostScript (and also other file formats)
from standard input to the printer's native language
(usually put to standard output).
o The translation is done with an external renderer, usu-
ally GhostScript (gs(1)). If no translation is needed
(PostScript printer) the renderer's command line reduces
to cat(1). The way how this translation is done is
described in a PPD file.
o Printer capabilities, how to handle user options, and
how to build the renderer command line is always
described by PPD files, these PPD files can come from
Foomatic or can be the ones supplied by the manufactur-
ers of PostScript printers. The PPD files are the same
for all spoolers.
o foomatic-rip works with every known spooler (CUPS,
LPRng, LPD, GNUlpr, PPR, PDQ, CPS, and without spooler).
It auto-detects the spooler from which it was called by
the command line options and environment variables which
were supplied by the spooler.
o Non-PostScript files are translated to PostScript before
they are passed to the renderer. This is usually done by
a2ps(1), enscript(1), or mpage(1). foomatic-rip auto-
detects which program is installed, but manual configu-
ration is also possible.
o foomatic-rip does not only apply option settings sup-
plied by the user through the command line of the print-
ing command, but also searches the entire job for embed-
ded option settings (only PostScript jobs). Here not
only settings affectimg the whole job are taken into
account, but also settings in the page headers, which
are only valid for the page where they were found, so
applications which produce PostScript code with page-
specific printer option settings are fully supported.
SPOOLER-LESS PRINTING
Options
-P <printer>
<printer> is the configured printer which should
be used for this job.
--ppd <ppdfile>
The PPD file <ppdfile> should be applied for
processing this job.
-J <jobtitle>
The <jobtitle> will be printed in the head line
of every page of a plain text job.
-o <option>=<value>
Option settings for this job, do
foomatic-rip-P <printer> -o docs <file>
(<file> can be an arbitrary existing file, as
.bashrc, will not be printed) to print a list of
available options for the specified <printer>.
<files> The file(s) to be printed.
foomatic-rip will print from standard input unless a file
to print is specified on the command line. If your
printer PPD file is stored as /usr/free-
ware/etc/foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd or
~/.foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd you can use it by simply
specifying "-P <printer>".
Put a line
*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| <command>"
into the PPD file, right after *PPD-Adobe: "4.3", where
<command> is a command into which you wnat to re-direct
the output data. Due to the restictions of PPD files <, >,
and " are not allowed in the <command>, replace them as
follows:
Character Replacement
---------------------
< <
> >
" "
' '
& &
This way you can print directly to your printer, use
*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| cat > /dev/lp0"
or
*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| cat > /dev/usb/lp0"
for local parallel or USB printers. To make normal users
able to print this way add them to the group lp and make
sure that the appropriate printer device file /dev/... is
group-writable for the lp group.
for a TCP/Socket/JetDirect printer with the host name
printer listening on port 9100 you need this:
*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| /usr/bin/nc -w 1 printer 9100"
Note the "-w 1" in the "nc" command line, it makes "nc"
exiting immediately after the data is tranferred to the
printer.
*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| rlpr -Plp@printserver"
directs your jobs to the LPD printer queue lp on the
machine named printserver.
See also http://www.linuxprinting.org/direct-doc.html
PRINTING WITH SPOOLER
To be done.
FILES
/usr/freeware/etc/foomatic/cups/<printer>.ppd
/usr/freeware/etc/foomatic/lpd/<printer>.ppd
/usr/freeware/etc/foomatic/ppr/<printer>.ppd
/usr/freeware/etc/foomatic/pdq/<printer>.ppd
/usr/freeware/etc/foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd
The PPD files of the currently defined printers
EXIT STATUSfoomatic-rip returns 0 unless something unexpected hap-
pens.
AUTHOR
Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net> with parts of Man-
fred Wassmanns's <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> man pages
for the Foomatic 2.0.x filters (directomatic(1), lpdo-
matic(8)).
BUGS
None so far.
Please send bug reports to foomatic-devel@linuxprint-
ing.org.
Foomatic Project 2002-11-26 FOOMATIC-RIP(1)
