job sheets through CUPS menu interface

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

> 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

Well, before I file the bug, I was trying to find out just what was buggy.  Because several applications have the exact same behaviour, I expect that they are using the same library, but I don't know what it is.  Does anyone know?

peter