Question about what filetypes are allowed to be printed.

[Steven W. Orr]

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?

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