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FOOMATIC-RIP(1)						       FOOMATIC-RIP(1)

NAME
       foomatic-rip - Universal print filter/RIP wrapper

SYNOPSIS
   General Options:
       foomatic-rip [-v] [-q] <mode-specific options>

   Spooler-less printing filter:
       foomatic-rip [-P <printer>  |  --ppd  <ppdfile> ]  [-J <jobtitle> ] [-o
	<option>=<value>  [...]]  [<files>]

   CUPS filter:
       foomatic-rip <jobid> <user> <jobtitle> <numcopies> <options> [<file>]

DESCRIPTION
       foomatic-rip is a universal print filter which can be used as CUPS fil‐
       ter  or	stand-alone for spooler-less, direct printing. It has the fol‐
       lowing features:

       It translates PostScript and PDF from standard input or a file  to  the
       printer's native language on standard output.

       The  translation is done with an external renderer, usually Ghostscript
       (gs(1)). If no translation is  needed  (PostScript  printer)  the  ren‐
       derer's command line reduces to cat(1). The way how this translation is
       done is described in a PPD file.

       Printer capabilities, how to handle user options, and how to build  the
       renderer command line is always described by PPD files, these PPD files
       usually come from Foomatic or can be the ones supplied by the  manufac‐
       turers of PostScript printers. The PPD files are the same for both CUPS
       and direct printing.

       foomatic-rip works with CUPS and for direct printing without  spooler).
       The  mode is selected by the command line options and environment vari‐
       ables which are supplied to foomatic-rip.

       foomatic-rip does not only apply option settings supplied by  the  user
       through the command line of the printing command, but also searches the
       entire job for embedded option settings (only  PostScript  jobs).  Here
       not  only  settings  which affect 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.

DIRECT, SPOOLER-LESS PRINTING
   Options
       -v	 verbose mode for debugging.  WARNING: This will create a file
		 in  /tmp that contains the debugging information.  This opens
		 a security loophole and should not be used in production.

       -q	 quiet mode - minimal information output

       -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.

       -o <option>=<value>
		 Option settings for this job.

       <files>	 The file(s) to be printed.

       foomatic-rip will print from standard input unless at least one file to
       be  printed is specified on the command line.  If your printer PPD file
       is	 stored	       as	  /etc/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 want to re-direct the output data. Due to the
       restrictions 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 transferred 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.openprinting.org/direct-doc.html

PRINTING WITH SPOOLER
       See   the    documentation    on	   the	  OpenPrinting	  Web	 site:
       http://www.openprinting.org/

CONFIGURATION FILE
       The  file  /etc/foomatic/filter.conf  is	 read whenever foomatic-rip is
       executed. It allows  to	configure  the	behavior  of  foomatic-rip  as
       follows	(lines	beginning  with	 #  are	 comments  and	therefore  get
       ignored):

       debug: 0|1
		 Turns on (1) or off (0) the debug mode. This is equivalent to
		 supplying the --debug command line option. Default setting is
		 0.

       ps_accounting: 0|1
		 Turns on (1) or off (0) inserting PostScript  code  for  page
		 accounting into PostScript jobs. The inserted PostScript code
		 makes Ghostscript generating accounting output on stderr  and
		 CUPS  can  this way log each page which got printed. The code
		 will only be inserted if CUPS is the spooler. Default setting
		 is 1.

       echo: [<path>/]<executable>
		 Sets the path to an echo(1) executable which supports -n.

       gspath: [<path>/]<executable>
		 Sets  the  path  to the Ghostscript (gs(1)) executable. To be
		 used if Ghostscript is at a non-standard location  or	if  an
		 alternative Ghostscript should be used.

       execpath: <path>[:<path>]...
		 Sets the $PATH variable to be used by foomatic-rip.

       cupsfilterpath: <path>[:<path>]...
		 Sets  the directories (colon-separated) in which foomatic-rip
		 searches for CUPS filters.

       preferred_shell: [<path>/]<executable>
		 Sets	the   preferred	  shell	  to   use   when    executing
		 FoomaticRIPCommandLine	 and  friends.	Several	 PPD files use
		 shell constructs that require a more modern shell like	 bash,
		 zsh, or ksh.

FILES
       /etc/cups/ppd/<printer>.ppd
       /etc/direct/<printer>.ppd

       The PPD files of the currently defined printers

       /etc/foomatic/filter.conf

       Configuration file for foomatic-rip

EXIT STATUS
       foomatic-rip returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

AUTHOR
       Till   Kamppeter	  <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>  with  parts  of  Manfred
       Wassmanns's <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> man pages for	 the  Foomatic
       2.0.x filters.

BUGS
       None so far.

       Please send bug reports to the OpenPrinting bug tracker:

       http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/

       Use "OpenPrinting" as the product and "cups-filters" as the component.

cups-filters			  2013-11-06		       FOOMATIC-RIP(1)
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