[cups.general] job sheets through CUPS menu interface

[Michael R Sweet]

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I'm running CUPS on a Fedora 9 box, and am having problems with setting up the cover pages correctly.
> 
> I set the cover pages (banners) for a printer through the CUPS interface.  Command-line printing through lp and lpr then works correctly for that printer, but some programs (including firefox and gedit) don't seem to be able to access the cover pages settings.
> 
> Instead the printing pop-up has a tab "Job" which shows "Add Cover Page" with "Before:" and "After:" set to "None".  As well, only the standard cover pages show (in a capitalized form).
> 
> Does anyone know how to get this interface to CUPS to work correctly?

Sure, file bugs against the corresponding applications - CUPS provides
APIs for getting the current default values and the supported banners,
and those applications (if they expose the options) should be using
them...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer