header.NumCopies

[Johan Henselmans]

Michael Sweet schreef:
> Johan Henselmans wrote:
>> In my rasterfilter I receive a raster and then transform it to the 
>> approprate format. I used the rater to epson and ratertodymo as a 
>> template,
>> so there is a StartPage, cupsRasterReadPixels, OutputLine and EndPage, 
>> which are called from main in while (cupsRasterReadHeader(ras, &header)).
>>
>> Everything fine, until we started testing for multiple copies. It 
>> seems that in OS X if a page is printed several times, there is an 
>> option in header to say how many copies are printed.
>>
>> No sweat, just loop through the number of copies, I thought, doing a
>> startpage, cupsRasterReadPixels, OutputLine and Endpage several times.
>>
>> That seems not to be possible. The rasterstream apparently only read 
>> once. Is it somehow possible to reset the raster to the begin of the 
>> stream, or is there a better way to print multiple copies?
> 
> Kurt's response is basically correct - if your device doesn't handle
> copy generation on its own, add the following attribute to your PPD
> file:
> 
>     *cupsManualCopies: true
> 


Ahh, the beauty of Postscript ;-).

Thanks, it worked.

-Johan