| 1 | # $Id$ |
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| 3 | CupsOfTee : Tee for CUPS |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 6 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 7 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 8 | (at your option) any later version. |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 11 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 12 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 13 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 16 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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| 17 | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | ============================================================================= |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | CupsOfTee is the equivalent of the *nix command 'tee', but as a CUPS |
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| 22 | backend. |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | CupsOfTee behaves just like any other CUPS backend, but allows you to |
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| 25 | transparently send print jobs' datas to any number of outputs : other |
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| 26 | CUPS backends, files or pipes. |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | This for example allows you to output the same print job on several |
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| 29 | printers at the same time, which is not possible with CUPS. |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | Another possibility would be for example to send the same document to |
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| 32 | a printer, a PDF generator, a Fax, and as an attachment to an email |
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| 33 | message, all of this by printing it a single time. |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | ============================================================================= |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | Installation : |
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| 38 | -------------- |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | 1 - Copy the 'cupsoftee' command into CUPS' backend directory, |
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| 41 | for example : |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | $ cp cupsoftee /usr/lib/cups/backend |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | 2 - Restart CUPS in order for this new backend to be detected. |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | 3 - Either from CUPS' web interface, add new printers with |
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| 48 | 'CupsOfTee managed' in front of the device's name. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | Or by directly modifying CUPS' printers.conf file, prepend |
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| 51 | each DeviceURI value with 'cupsoftee://', and restart CUPS. |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | 4 - Copy cupsoftee.conf into CUPS' configuration directory (where |
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| 54 | cupsd.conf resides) : |
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| 56 | $ cp cupsoftee.conf /etc/cups/ |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | 5 - Modify cupsoftee.conf to suit your needs. Several examples |
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| 59 | are included. |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | 6 - There's no 6 ! |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | ============================================================================= |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | Troubleshooting : |
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| 66 | ----------------- |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | 1 - Set "LogLevel debug2" in CUPS' cupsd.conf |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | 2 - Restart CUPS. |
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| 71 | |
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| 72 | 3 - Set "debug: yes" in the [global] section of cupsoftee.conf |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | 4 - Print something on a print queue managed |
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| 75 | by CupsOfTee. |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | 5 - Look at CUPS' error_log file for diagnostic and error messages. |
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| 78 | |
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| 79 | ============================================================================= |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | Please e-mail bugs to : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet) |
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