1<!DOCTYPE HTML> 2<html> 3<!-- SECTION: Man Pages --> 4<head> 5 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cups-printable.css"> 6 <title>mime.convs(5)</title> 7</head> 8<body> 9<h1 class="title">mime.convs(5)</h1> 10<h2 class="title"><a name="NAME">Name</a></h2> 11mime.convs - mime type conversion file for cups (deprecated) 12<h2 class="title"><a name="DESCRIPTION">Description</a></h2> 13The <b>mime.convs</b> file defines the filters that are available for converting files from one format to another. 14The standard filters support text, PDF, PostScript, and many types of image files. 15<p>Additional filters are specified in files with the extension <i>.convs</i> in the CUPS configuration directory. 16<p>Each line in the <b>mime.convs</b> file is a comment, blank, or filter 17line. 18Comment lines start with the # character. 19Filter lines specify the source and destination MIME types along with a relative cost associated with the filter and the filter to run: 20<pre class="man"> 21 22 source/type destination/type cost filter 23 24</pre> 25The <i>source/type</i> field specifies the source MIME media type that is consumed by the filter. 26<p>The <i>destination/type</i> field specifies the destination MIME media type that is produced by the filter. 27<p>The <i>cost</i> field specifies the relative cost for running the filter. 28A value of 100 means that the filter uses a large amount of resources while a value of 0 means that the filter uses very few resources. 29<p>The <i>filter</i> field specifies the filter program filename. 30Filenames are relative to the CUPS filter directory. 31<h2 class="title"><a name="FILES">Files</a></h2> 32<i>/etc/cups</i> - Typical CUPS configuration directory. 33<br> 34<i>/usr/lib/cups/filter</i> - Typical CUPS filter directory. 35<br> 36<i>/usr/libexec/cups/filter</i> - CUPS filter directory on macOS. 37<h2 class="title"><a name="EXAMPLES">Examples</a></h2> 38Define a filter that converts PostScript documents to CUPS Raster format: 39<pre class="man"> 40 41 application/vnd.cups-postscript application/vnd.cups-raster 50 pstoraster 42 43</pre> 44<h2 class="title"><a name="NOTES">Notes</a></h2> 45CUPS filters are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS. 46Printers that do not support IPP can be supported using applications such as 47<b>ippeveprinter</b>(1). 48<h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> 49<b>cups-files.conf</b>(5), 50<b>cupsd.conf</b>(5), 51<b>cupsd</b>(8), 52<b>cupsfilter</b>(8), 53<b>mime.types</b>(5), 54CUPS Online Help (<a href="http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:631/help</a>) 55<h2 class="title"><a name="COPYRIGHT">Copyright</a></h2> 56Copyright © 2007-2019 by Apple Inc. 57 58</body> 59</html> 60