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

[Michael Sweet]

The same applies for backends - use the code below to determine which page size is selected for the job.

On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Lu binbin wrote:

>> On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:06 AM, 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.
>>> =20
>>> How can i get media size of current job? Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> Are you doing this from a filter?  If so, the correct way is to combine =
>> the options from argv[5] with the PPD defaults, and then query the =
>> current size using ppdPageSize:
>> 
>>    ppd_file_t *ppd =3D ppdOpenFile(getenv("PPD"));
>>    cups_option_t *options =3D NULL;
>>    int num_options =3D cupsParseOptions(argv[5], 0, &options);
>>    ppd_size_t *size;
>> 
>>    ppdMarkDefaults(ppd);
>>    cupsMarkOptions(ppd, num_options, options);
>> 
>>    size =3D ppdPageSize(ppd, NULL);
>> 
>> ___________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>> 
> 
> I'm not writing a filter but a simple backend.
> The options parameter(argv[5]) only contain "job-uuid=urn:uuid:8cbca66a-fc74-38ae-644b-8c38094ce5fc".
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