Re: Question about what filetypes are allowed to be printed.

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:40:38AM +0100, Giulio Sorrentino wrote:
> >Can someone please tell me where the list of filetypes are which the 
> >CUPS system knows how to print?
> This is a really unusual question.
> Cups is only a server: it converses with others applications for 
> printing files.
> It means that cups server opens no files: is the application to open it 
> and send data to cups.

Actually, cups does do some "magic" -- see /etc/cups/mime.convs and look in
/usr/lib/cups/filter/. This lets you do things like "lpr image.png" and have
it generally just work.

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