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

[Michael Sweet]

Sorry, not currently.  There are some pending feature requests on cups.org that include patches for MAC and MLS which might help, but it will require some more tweaking to the application to get anything other than the default security label to appear for content printed from those applications.

On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:38 PM, Andrew wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> I think I could make some "default mandatory label" for this kind of print jobs - the same thing with .html-pages printing from a browser (for example). But I still want to know if there is any posibility to get absolute path of the printing file from GUI apps such as text editors, browsers (local files), etc..

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair