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| 3 | Tea4CUPS : Tee for CUPS |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | (c) 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> |
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| 6 | (c) 2005 Peter Stuge <stuge-tea4cups@cdy.org> |
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| 7 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 8 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 9 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 10 | (at your option) any later version. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 13 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 14 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 15 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 18 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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| 19 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | ============================================================================= |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | Tea4CUPS resembles the *nix command 'tee', but is a CUPS backend. |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | Tea4CUPS behaves just like any other CUPS backend, but allows you to |
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| 26 | modify print jobs' datas as they pass through it and to transparently |
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| 27 | send them to any number of outputs : other CUPS backends, files or pipes. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | This for example allows you to output the same print job on several |
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| 30 | printers at the same time, which is not possible with CUPS. |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | Another possibility would be for example to send the same document to |
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| 33 | a printer, a PDF generator, a Fax, and as an attachment to an email |
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| 34 | message, all of this by printing it a single time. |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | Tea4CUPS allows this by permitting you to easily plug your own |
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| 37 | commands into the very last stage of CUPS' filtering chain. |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | Tea4CUPS provides three ways to launch commands : |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | - filters : A filter can modify the input datas before they |
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| 42 | are sent to the printer or made available to |
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| 43 | the pre and post hooks defined below. |
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| 44 | Currently a single filter can be defined |
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| 45 | per print queue. |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | - prehooks : these are guaranteed to be launched before the |
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| 48 | print job is sent to the real printer. |
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| 49 | Any prehook which exits -1 can cancel the |
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| 50 | print job. Any number of prehooks can be |
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| 51 | defined for a particular print queue. |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | - posthooks : these are guaranteed to be launched after the |
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| 54 | print job has been sent to the real printer, |
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| 55 | unless the job was previously cancelled by a |
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| 56 | prehook. Any number of posthooks can be |
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| 57 | defined for a particular print queue. |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | To help your own commands, Tea4CUPS makes available as part of the |
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| 60 | environment several variables which can be used from the |
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| 61 | commands you use in pre and post hooks : |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | TEAPRINTERNAME : The print queue name. |
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| 64 | TEADIRECTORY : Tea4CUPS output directory. |
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| 65 | TEADATAFILE : Full name of Tea4CUPS work file (in $TEADIRECTORY). |
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| 66 | TEAJOBSIZE : Job's size in bytes. |
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| 67 | TEAMD5SUM : MD5 sum of the job's datas. |
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| 68 | TEACLIENTHOST : Client's hostname or IP address. |
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| 69 | TEAJOBID : Job's Id. |
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| 70 | TEAUSERNAME : Name of the user who launched the print job. |
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| 71 | TEATITLE : Job's title. |
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| 72 | TEACOPIES : Number of copies requested. |
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| 73 | TEAOPTIONS : Options of the print job. |
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| 74 | TEAINPUTFILE : Print job's data file or empty when job read from stdin. |
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| 75 | TEABILLING : Job's billing code (lp -o job-billing=SomeCode file.ps) |
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| 76 | TEACONTROLFILE : Job's IPP message file (usually /var/spool/cups/c?????) |
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| 77 | TEASTATUS : Original CUPS backend's exit code : ONLY AVAILABLE FROM |
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| 78 | posthooks, obviously. |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | None of these environment variables is available to filters. |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | NB : Tea4CUPS requires a version of Python >= 2.3 |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | ============================================================================= |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | Installation : |
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| 87 | -------------- |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | 0 - Download Tea4CUPS from : |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | and extract it : |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | $ tar -zxf tea4cups-x.yy.tar.gz |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | where x.yy is Tea4CUPS' version number. |
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| 98 | |
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| 99 | 1 - Copy the 'tea4cups' command into CUPS' backend directory, |
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| 100 | for example : |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | $ cp tea4cups /usr/lib/cups/backend |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | If you use CUPS v1.2 or higher you must do this as well : |
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| 105 | |
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| 106 | $ chown root.root /usr/lib/cups/backend/tea4cups |
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| 107 | $ chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/tea4cups |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | 2 - Restart CUPS in order for this new backend to be detected. |
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| 110 | NB : For this to work you need CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. |
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| 111 | You can use Tea4CUPS with older versions if you want, but |
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| 112 | without autodetection. |
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| 113 | |
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| 114 | 3 - Either from CUPS' web interface, add new printers with |
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| 115 | 'Tea4CUPS managed' in front of the device's name. |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | Or by directly modifying CUPS' printers.conf file, or with |
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| 118 | the lpadmin command line tool, just prepend each DeviceURI |
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| 119 | value with 'tea4cups://'. If you modified printers.conf |
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| 120 | directly instead of using lpadmin then don't forget to |
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| 121 | restart CUPS. |
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| 122 | (Use this last method if autodetection doesn't work because |
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| 123 | the version of CUPS you use is too old) |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | 4 - Copy tea4cups.conf into CUPS' configuration directory (where |
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| 126 | cupsd.conf resides) : |
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| 128 | $ cp tea4cups.conf /etc/cups/ |
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| 129 | |
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| 130 | 5 - Modify tea4cups.conf to suit your needs. Several examples |
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| 131 | are included. |
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| 132 | |
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| 133 | 6 - There's no 6 ! |
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| 134 | |
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| 135 | ============================================================================= |
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| 136 | |
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| 137 | Troubleshooting : |
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| 138 | ----------------- |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | 1 - Set "LogLevel debug2" and "MaxLogSize 0" in CUPS' cupsd.conf |
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| 141 | |
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| 142 | 2 - Restart CUPS. |
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| 144 | 3 - Set "debug: yes" in the [global] section of tea4cups.conf |
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| 145 | |
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| 146 | 4 - Print something on a print queue managed |
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| 147 | by Tea4CUPS. |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | 5 - Look at CUPS' error_log file for diagnostic and error messages. |
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| 150 | |
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| 151 | ============================================================================= |
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| 152 | |
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| 153 | CUPS (Common UNIX(r) Printing System) is trademark property of Easy Software |
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| 154 | Products. |
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| 155 | |
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| 156 | You can download CUPS from : |
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| 158 | http://www.cups.org |
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| 159 | |
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| 160 | ============================================================================= |
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| 161 | |
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| 162 | Please e-mail bugs to : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet) |
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