[cups.general] page_log

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:36:10PM +0200, Ladinig Rudolf wrote:
> 
> As I need some sort of page-counting, I have two questions:
> - Is it possible to send the job to the pstops filter and after that 
> send him to ppmtosplc?
> - Do you know another way to get a page_log or something similar (Could 
> a shell script do this before sending the job to ppmtosplc?

  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation
  
Then, whenever you need the page_log (but why would you need it if  
you used PyKota) :

  $ dumpykota --data history --format cups >page_log
        
or more interesting :        

  $ dumpykota --data history --format cups username=jerome hostname=192.168.1.1 billingcode=MyProject
  
Which would only dump jobs created by jerome on machine 192.168.1.1 and
for the MyProject project.
        
The other advantages are that :        

        * PyKota can't be bypassed (pstops can be bypassed, as
          you already know)
        * PyKota can do hardware accounting as well.
        * PyKota doesn't care which printer driver you use.
        * With software accounting, PyKota recognizes the
          following formats :
          
            DSC complianet and Binary PostScript
            PCLXL (aka PCL6)
            PCL 3/4/5 (with GhostScript based drivers)
            ESC/P2
            PDF
        * etc...    
        
hth        

Jerome Alet