At my company, we have a server called a Fax*Star. This server runs on Windows XP and shares a virtual printer via SMB. The Windows driver used is 'Generic / Text Only' and does not accept any Postscript jobs. I'm trying to send a text file to this printer using CUPS/KDE3.5/Etch using the textonly.ppd driver from a Fedora package.
The problem I'm running into is that every KDE application seems to print it's output as Postscript which will not work with this virtual printer. I have found that using the command lpr -P FaxStar -h -l textfile.txt works. I decided to try setting up a virtual printer with KDE's Printer Manager to send the output to this command, but it fails because the output from the KDE application (in this case KWrite) is in Postscript. I there any way to get a KDE application to print plain text instead of formating it to plain text?
