Printing dvi files with cups
 

Hi,
I like to print dvi files directly using cups e.g.

lpr file.dvi

I seem to remember, but cannot find anything, that there was a way to add an entry to the cups mime types file and to the file, where the mime type is associated with a filter program.
Thanks in advance
didiw

Hmm. Somehow, I cannot find it in the latest version of the IBM LPIC-1 tutorial, but the archive copy of an older version has it. Or see here in the PDF version of the same tutorial.

If you cannot find a dvi filter for cups, evince and xdvik both allow pringing of dvi (and many other) format files form those applications.

It is mentioned but does not include the wrapper script like the older versions.

Here was Michael Sweet's comment back in 2003 although it appears he added it as an enhancement in 2016...
https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/171

Depending on your distribution there is also dvipdf to convert the file to pdf then print it via lpr.

I folloowed the links in thisarticle, but I cannot see the files being used, neither in the error_log of cups nor in an strace.
Is there any change in applying those file.

The article explains how to write your own, custom CUPS filter for an unsupported file type. CUPS doesn't provide a filter for printing DVI out of the box.