[cups.general] Page Width Option

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Tran, Vince T wrote:
> We’ve recently migrated from Solaris 9 to RHEL 4, but lpr in CUPS
> doesn’t support a very important option used here in our shop – width
> option.  In Sol 9, one can send lpr with –w option for width of page,
> but one can no longer do this in CUPS.  I’ve seen a lot of options in
> CUPS, but there’s not one to where you can specify the page width.  Has
> anyone find a way to do this?  Thanks.

You can use your interface scripts from Solaris in CUPS too (or create
a new one that supports your -w option SystemV-style...).

See "man lpadmin". Install interface scripts with the "-i" option to
lpadmin when creating the print queue.


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