Using Alternate pstops

[Helge Blischke]

Richard Rogers wrote:
>> 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
>>
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>> 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
> 

Put it into the ~/lpoptions file of into the global /etc/cups/lpoptions file. That will work
in any case.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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