Preview Print Jobs (get job from server?)
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Tue Apr 10 17:50:48 PDT 2007
Ken Tanzer wrote:
>> You *could* develop a CGI program that reads the spool files for a
>> job and produces a preview image/PDF file. This could then be
>> linked from the jobs.tmpl file to provide the preview functionality
>> you want. However, keep in mind that you would have to handle any
>> security/access control yourself...
>
> We wrote a PHP script to do exactly that, but I can't figure out how to get our script invoked. Following the documentation, I created an /etc/cups/cgi.types with the following line:
>
> application/x-httpd-php php
>
> And I tried copying our file (preview.php) into /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin. I've given it both a .cgi and a .php extension (and restarted CUPS), and tried the URL with our without a ".cgi" at the end, but I continue to get a "404 Not Found" error.
>
> Please tell me what I'm missing! Thanks.
No, you want to put it in /usr/share/doc/cups, with the rest of the
web content...
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