[cups.general] letter head pdfprinter

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Sep 27 07:05:27 PDT 2006


Nicki Messerschmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to create a pdf printer which puts our letter head into the
> postscript stream.
> 
> What I'd like to achive is the following:
> - print from any application to this special pdfprinter
> - cups inserts our letter head (first page different) into the
>   background as image
> - cups sends this modfied postscript to the pdf backend
> 
> As far as I understand cups at the moment I would need a filter to do
> this job.
> Has anyone done somthing like this before and can point me into the
> right direction?
> 
> 
> Cheers and thanks
> Nicki
> 

I could offer you a small backend written in Perl what does what you
want. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.

Helge


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