1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2 3<html> 4 <head> 5 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> 6 <title>Job Format Translation</title> 7 <meta name="GENERATOR" content= 8 "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"> 9 <link rel="HOME" title=" LPRng Reference Manual" href= 10 "index.htm"> 11 <link rel="UP" title="Printcap Database " href= 12 "printcapref.htm"> 13 <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Bounce Queue " href= 14 "lpdbounce.htm"> 15 <link rel="NEXT" title="Dynamic Routing " href= 16 "destinations.htm"> 17 </head> 18 19 <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link= 20 "#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 21 <div class="NAVHEADER"> 22 <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border= 23 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 24 <tr> 25 <th colspan="3" align="center">LPRng Reference Manual: 5 26 Sep 2003 (For LPRng-3.8.22)</th> 27 </tr> 28 29 <tr> 30 <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href= 31 "lpdbounce.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 32 33 <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 34 12. Printcap Database</td> 35 36 <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href= 37 "destinations.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 38 </tr> 39 </table> 40 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 41 </div> 42 43 <div class="SECT1"> 44 <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="TRANSLATEFORMAT">12.12. Job Format 45 Translation</a></h1> 46 47 <p>Options used:</p> 48 49 <ul> 50 <li> 51 <p><var class="LITERAL">translate_format=</var><span 52 class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">change outgoing job 53 file formats</i></span></p> 54 </li> 55 56 <li> 57 <p><var class= 58 "LITERAL">translate_incoming_format=</var><span class= 59 "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">change incoming job file 60 formats</i></span></p> 61 </li> 62 </ul> 63 <br> 64 <br> 65 66 <p>A rarely encountered problem is when a job is printed with 67 one format but for compatibility needs to be processed with 68 another. The simple <var class= 69 "LITERAL">translate_format=vlxf</var> option will rename 70 format <var class="LITERAL">x</var> files to <var class= 71 "LITERAL">f</var> format.</p> 72 73 <p>This can be used to resolve problems with PC based 74 software, which spools jobs using the <var class= 75 "LITERAL">v</var> format. Unfortunately, many RCF1179 print 76 spoolers do not understand the <var class="LITERAL">v</var> 77 format and mishandle the job. A simple forwarding queue with 78 the following entries will rename <var class= 79 "LITERAL">v</var> format to <var class="LITERAL">l</var> 80 (binary) format.</p> 81 82 <div class="INFORMALEXAMPLE"> 83 <a name="AEN5974"></a> 84<pre class="SCREEN"> 85 lp 86 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P 87 :translate_format=vl 88 :lp=lp@printerserver 89</pre> 90 </div> 91 <br> 92 <br> 93 94 <p>The <var class="LITERAL">translate_incoming_format</var> 95 will do the same thing, but this time on incoming jobs.</p> 96 </div> 97 98 <div class="NAVFOOTER"> 99 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 100 101 <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border= 102 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 103 <tr> 104 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href= 105 "lpdbounce.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 106 107 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 108 "index.htm" accesskey="H">Home</a></td> 109 110 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href= 111 "destinations.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 112 </tr> 113 114 <tr> 115 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Bounce 116 Queue</td> 117 118 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 119 "printcapref.htm" accesskey="U">Up</a></td> 120 121 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Dynamic 122 Routing</td> 123 </tr> 124 </table> 125 </div> 126 </body> 127</html> 128 129