[cups.general] count pages befor printing

[Christof Spies]

ok, this ist the long way.
any simple way? perhaps some lines in the bash?

Jerome Alet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:13:03PM -0500, Christof Spies wrote:
> 
>>is there any way to count the pages of a printjob, which is waiting in the 
>>queque?
>>i want to show the users the price of each job befor printing it. with 
>>standart-cups it's only possible to show it afterwards.
> 
> 
> Download and install pykota from :
> 
>     http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation
>     
> Then create printers and set prices on them in PyKota's database,     
> and use the pykotme command line tool, which will give you the
> price of the job in advance, and will let you chose the printer
> on which the price is the lower.
> 
> As an alternative, use PyKota's pkpgcounter's command line tool
> to just know how many pages the job is long.
> 
> hth
> 
> Jerome Alet
>