[cups.development] Get an absolute path to the printing document

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Wed Oct 19 07:31:44 PDT 2011


Hello,

On Oct 19 02:58 Andrew wrote (excerpt):
> Is there any universal method to get an absolute path to a
> printing document from any application

I think there is no such method.

Think about this example:

cat /path/to/document | lp -d queue_name -t some_title

The "lp" client does not "see" any file name.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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