About Printer Features

[Michael Sweet]

keens312 wrote:
>> keens312 wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> All the extention UI will be added into "Printer Features" tab on Mac.
>>>
>>> This leads to users more mouse click work.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to remove Printer Features and move the tabs inside of it up to the first level?
>> No.
>>
>> The best you can do it provide your own PDE, which will allow you to
>> organize your options as you want in the lower area.  The upper area
>> is reserved for very common options (like copies and which printer
>> you want to use), while the lower area will start with the
>> application-defined options (if any) shown.
>>
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>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>>
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I am sure cups filter driver would be much more difficult to deal with PDE bundle or plugins.
> 
> For example, how can a filter get users' selection in the PDE?
> 
> Am i correct?

No.

Your PDE either selects PPD options or its own, which are passed in
with the job - you'll see them on the command-line of your filter.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com