[cups.development] [RFE] STR #3866: CUPS banners: support job information also in "Header" and "Footer"

[Joachim Reichelt]

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Currently CUPS banner pages do not support
to use the job information values (for the "Show" keyword)
also in the text for the "Header" and "Footer".

Something like
-------------------------------------------------------------
Header job-name for job-originating-user-name
-------------------------------------------------------------
would be nice to have so that the admin could specify
to get what is most important in his particular case
printed topmost on the banner pages.

This is an import feature for using cups in commercial environment, as
there are several bunches of printouts on big printing machines.
This would not break any existing feature and are about 4 lines of code to
add to bannertops.c, e.g.


1003
1004     if (banner->header)
1005     {
1006       printf("%.1f %.1f moveto", x, print_height - 2 * fontsize);
1007       if( strcasecmp("job-originating-user-name", banner->header) ) {
1008           psTextUTF8(fonts, 2 * fontsize, PS_BOLD, PS_CENTER,
banner->header);
1009       } else {
1010           psTextUTF8(fonts, 2 * fontsize, PS_BOLD, PS_RIGHT,
1011                    _cupsLangString(language, _("Printed For: ")));
1012           psTextUTF8(fonts, 2 * fontsize, PS_BOLD, PS_LEFT,
username);
1013       }
1014     }
1015
1016     if (banner->footer)
1017     {
1018       printf("%.1f %.1f moveto", x, fontsize);
1019       if( strcasecmp("job-originating-user-name", banner->footer ) )
{
1020           psTextUTF8(fonts, 2 * fontsize, PS_BOLD, PS_CENTER,
banner->footer);
1021       } else {
1022           psTextUTF8(fonts, 2 * fontsize, PS_BOLD, PS_RIGHT,
1023                    _cupsLangString(language, _("Printed For: ")));
1024           psTextUTF8(fonts, 2 * fontsize, PS_BOLD, PS_LEFT,
username);
1025       }
1026     }

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