[cups.general] How to get media size of current job?

[Michael Sweet]

On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Lu binbin wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I need to get the media or paper size of current print job in my work.
>> In RFC 2911, I found there is a media attribute in Job Template Attribute.
>> So I use pkipplib parse some control file (/var/spool/cups/cxxxxx),there
>> are only Operation attributes and Job attributes.
>> 
>> How can i get media size of current job? Thanks!
> 
> The media is specified by the media attribute, the first (or single) 
> component of which is the name denoting the media, e.g. A4, or 
> custom.WIDTHxLENGTH (possibly followed by in, cm, or mm if not printer's 
> points). In case of the names, you need to know what A4 means, e.g.


Media size can also be specified using the media-col, PageSize, or PageRegion attributes...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer