Re: [GLLUG] Cups HEADER?

[Benjamin Cathey]

Well that's all well and good except that is refering to calling jobs manually using lp or lpr and I have a cups server setup and am not sure how I could integrate this.

I found a link with some code in it 

http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/bibl/system/public/cups/pstops_mod_user/

But that is really more work than I wanted to have to do (ie: recompile cups from source.)

I thought it would be a common feature request . . . 


Benjamin Cathey
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----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Hruska
[mailto:thruska at cubiclesoft.com]
To: Benjamin Cathey
[mailto:benjamincathey at catheycompany.com]
Cc: Charles Ulrich
[mailto:charles at idealso.com], linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
14:37:51 -0400
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Cups HEADER?


>->> Benjamin Cathey wrote:
>->> > Oh - I know about the banner page but the idea is to cut down on wasted
>->> paper
>->> >  
>->> > :)
>->> > 
>->> > I would think the header/footer with username would have been a common
>->> option but I can't find anything about it in the documentation of online.
>->> > 
>->> > Thanks you gurus out there might be able to clue me in to what I am
>->> missing.
>->> > 
>->> > 
>->> > Benjamin Cathey
>->> > System Administrator
>->> > Cathey Company
>->> 
>->> Isn't CUPS just a PostScript printer?  That means it has to work with 
>->> data in PostScript format - which, IIRC, is plain-text.  Which, in turn, 
>->> means you can potentially inject a header wherever you want.
>->> 
>->> But editing raw PostScript data is kind of hard.  An easier method:
>->> 
>->> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html
>->> 
>->> See that link for "Pretty Print".  Then the trick would be to name the 
>->> file such that it includes the username in the filename.
>->> 
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>->> CubicleSoft President
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