Using Alternate pstops

Richard Rogers richard at rogersuk.me.uk
Wed Dec 17 01:24:18 PST 2008


> Richard,
>
> what you intend to achieve is about what I described as "extended page label/watermark"
> printing in the little pstops.txt documentation file.
>
> As you can see from the watermark example near the end of the docu, you need to write a
> piece of PostScript code to do that, and you need to make sure that the user info
> you want to print on each page does not obscure the normal page content or gets obscured
> by the normal content (depending on whether the watermark is printed first or last on the page).
>
> If you are not sufficiently used to PostScript as a programming language, please be
> more specific on what you want to print where onto the pages, and I could post an example
> with lots of comments that help to edit the example to your needs.
>
> Helge
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org

Ok, so I've created the watermarks folder in /etc/cups
I've created a file called label1
and pasted in the contents of the example in pstops.txt.
However, I am unsure as to where to put the page-label=label1 line.
If I am supposed to put it in the printers.conf file, then I couldn't get it to work





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