How to write a (pre-)filter - a little follow-up

[Goffioul Michael]

> Hi again,
> 
> > You don't need a filter for this. If your script can be called as 
> > simply as "miprint file_to_print", then create a pseudo/special 
> > printer and define its command to "miprint %in". The script will be 
> > fed with a temporary postscript file, kdeprint will take 
> care of the 
> > temporary file creation and removal.
> 
> Tried, tested, works. :-) The command editor also seems to 
> have a way of including optional arguments (%filterargs?) - 
> does this work with this solution as well? (e.g. it would be 
> nice to be able to include a "-P" flag if I want to print on 
> the "private" printing quota, or "-r <hostname>" if the Sun 
> that I usually log on to is down for a change...) Actually 
> asking you all this bit by bit is probably getting on your 
> nerves, so is there any kind of documentation out there for 
> this kind of thing?

There's no documentation, but what you want to do is possible.
In that case, you use a filter as a pseudo-printer. The easiest
is to look at the print-to-pdf implementation, this is the most
complete example. You should be able to easily understand of to
create your own options (with the command editor).

Michael.