[cups.general] filter options effect banner too

[Helge Blischke]

Perhaps you may look at the "alternate pstops filter" (see the links on
the CUPS web site).
It permits tailoring banner pages at your needs.

Helge

Alex Finch wrote:
> 
>   Hm, seems like a bit of a design flaw there then!
> 
>   Can you help me write a banner page that is impervious to being rotated,
> without disrupting the following job? I have a carefully crafted banner,
> designed to work with our output stacker. Rotating it 90 degrees rather spoils
> the effect.
> 
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> > Alex Finch wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>  I am just setting up a cups system for the first time, and I have
> >> found the following bizarre behaviour. I issued the command:
> >>
> >> lpr -o "prettyprint columns=2 landscape" /etc/printcap
> >>
> >> this doesn't just make the output landscape as required, it also
> >> rotates the banner page, which is not required.
> >>
> >>     Is there any way to avoid this!
> >
> >
> > No.
> >
> 
> --
>   Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.

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