Which is the correct way to specify collate

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Jan 22 09:52:57 PST 2007


Anders Blomdell wrote:
> With cups 1.2.7 (on fedora6 at least), top level collate has stopped
> working from kprinter and gtklp on printers that support collate. The
> reason is that the collate option exists in both the ppd file and in
> the cups interface, so my question is simply, should collate be
> specified with:
 > ...

For printing jobs, use cupsAddOption.  ppdMarkOption() only marks the
option in the PPD file/data, which doesn't get applied to the job
unless you actually save your changes to the PPD file in
/etc/cups/ppd.

FWIW, the collate option isn't case sensitive.

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