Custom header in printouts

[Helge Blischke]

toixos at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> I want to automatically print in the upper left corner of all my printouts the page number.
> Example. If I print a 60 page document, I need to have cups automatically add in the upper left corner something like 1/60 , 2/60 etc.
> The option page-label allows me as far as I know to add only static content in the center of the header and the footer.
> Is this possible?
> Can you give me any pointers?
> 

See the "alternate pstops filter" from the lins on the CUPS site.
It permits a page-label to be a complete PostScript procedure.
If you use this filter, I could even give you a page-label proc
which does (nearly) what you want.

Helge

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