header.NumCopies

[Michael Sweet]

Johan Henselmans wrote:
> In my rasterfilter I receive a raster and then transform it to the 
> approprate format. I used the rater to epson and ratertodymo as a template,
> so there is a StartPage, cupsRasterReadPixels, OutputLine and EndPage, 
> which are called from main in while (cupsRasterReadHeader(ras, &header)).
> 
> Everything fine, until we started testing for multiple copies. It seems 
> that in OS X if a page is printed several times, there is an option in 
> header to say how many copies are printed.
> 
> No sweat, just loop through the number of copies, I thought, doing a
> startpage, cupsRasterReadPixels, OutputLine and Endpage several times.
> 
> That seems not to be possible. The rasterstream apparently only read 
> once. Is it somehow possible to reset the raster to the begin of the 
> stream, or is there a better way to print multiple copies?

Kurt's response is basically correct - if your device doesn't handle
copy generation on its own, add the following attribute to your PPD
file:

     *cupsManualCopies: true

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