Question about what filetypes are allowed to be printed.

[David Curry]

Steven W. Orr wrote:

>On Thursday, Feb 24th 2005 at 01:40 +0100, quoth Giulio Sorrentino:
>
>=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
>=>
>=>> Can someone please tell me where the list of filetypes are which the CUPS
>=>> system knows how to print?
>=>> 
>=>> TIA
>=>> 
>=>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.
>=>
>=>What do you want to do?
>
>I want to know what types of file I can print without having to convert 
>them to postscript. Can I say
>
>lpr foo.dvi
>    foo.jpg
>    foo.gif
>    foo.doc
>    foo.bmp
>
>Where's the list?
>
>  
>
An earlier poster  pointed you in the direction of the lists you want!

Have you looked into  /usr/lib/cups/filter and /etc/cups/mime.convs ?