[cups.general] letter head pdfprinter

Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH cups at alienn.net
Thu Sep 28 03:12:13 PDT 2006


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Helge Blischke said the following:
> Nicki Messerschmidt wrote:
>> 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?
> I could offer you a small backend written in Perl what does what you
> want. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.
If you would be so kind. I already found the alternative pstops filter,
but it is not that easy without knowing quite a bit postscript.


Cheers and thanks,
Nicki

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