About This Book

Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues Overview for Users

Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues for System Administrators

Spooler Overview

Printer, Plotter, and Spooler Subsystem Programming

Printer Backend Overview for Programming

Virtual Printer Definitions and Attributes

Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Printer Colon File Conventions

Example of Print Formatter

Understanding the Interaction between qdaemon and the Backend

Understanding Backend Routines in libqb

Printer Code Page Translation Tables

Printer Code Page Translation for Multibyte Code Sets

Printer Attachment Files

Operators for Limits Field in the Printer Colon File

Adding a Printer Using the Printer Colon File

Printer-Specific Information

Printer Support

Pass-Through Mode

Viewing, Formatting, or Modifying Virtual Printer Definitions

Modifying the mi, mp, and _d Attributes on a PostScript Queue

How piobe Uses Printer Colon Files

Spooler Job Header and Trailer Pages

Modifying the mo Virtual Printer Attribute

Filters

Editing the /etc/qconfig File

Troubleshooting the Base Operating System Spooler

System V Printer Configuration

Appendix A. Calculating Page Length Using Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Appendix B. Calculating Page Width Using Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Appendix C. Notices

Index