[cups.general] count pages befor printing

Christof Spies news at seips.de
Sun Dec 19 11:52:28 PST 2004


thx, i'll try it this way. if it's to difficult for me, i'll write again.
christof

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Christof Spies wrote:
> 
>>ok, this ist the long way.
>>any simple way? perhaps some lines in the bash?
> 
> 
> no, but you can just use PyKota's pkpgcounter command line tool
> without configuring PyKota or using a database
> 
> this tool can be used independantly, BUT requires that PyKota is
> installed (no configuration nor database needed though)
> 
> supported Page Description Languages are :
> 
>         Binary and DSC compliant PostScript
>         PDF
>         PCL3/4/5
>         PCLXL (aka PCL6)
>         ESC/P2
>         
> so it would be a bit hard to do all this in a bash script...        
> 
> hth anyway
> 
> Jerome Alet
> 




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