[cups.general] Customize job-sheets pages

[Michael Sweet]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:57 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Aug 13 11:50 Johannes Meixner wrote:
>> On Aug 13 02:21 Roberto wrote (shortened):
>>>  there is a method to customize the job-sheets pages?
>>
>> Customize the template files in /usr/share/cups/banners/
>>
>> Some basic PostScript knowledge helps a lot.
>>
>> Therein stuff like
>>  {printer-name}
>>  {job-id}
>>  {job-name}
>>  {job-originating-user-name}
>>  {?job-billing}
>> gets replaced by the actual values of the current job.
>
> The above is for CUPS version 1.3 (currently I run CUPS 1.3.11).
>
> For CUPS version 1.4 it seems it will change (currently I do
> not run CUPS 1.4rc1 so that I cannot check it right now).
>
> For CUPS version 1.4 there is documentation available at
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/spec-banner.html


Keep in mind that the underlying banner mechanism has *not* changed,  
we've just added a new filter and file format specifically for banners  
(and the test page) in CUPS 1.4.  The old-style PostScript (or plain  
text) banner pages will continue to work just fine.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer