[cups.development] Text box within the GUI for the printerdriver

[Michael R Sweet]

On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:28 AM, franz.pfoertsch.brose wrote:
>>
>> Normal options are just "pick from a list" or boolean.  Custom  
>> options
>> can be used to allow user-entered values, but you'll still need a few
>> choices for apps that don't support custom options.
>>
>> See the custom option information here:
>>
>>     http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/spec-ppd.html
>>
> Please give a small example to build up  a ppd with custom option  
> textfield.

The documentation has this already:

     *% Base PostScript watermark option
     *OpenUI WatermarkText/Watermark Text: PickOne
     *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *WatermarkText
     *DefaultWatermarkText: None
     *WatermarkText None: ""
     *WatermarkText Draft: "<</cupsString1(Draft)>>setpagedevice"
     *CloseUI: *WatermarkText

     *% Custom PostScript watermark option
     *CustomWatermarkText True: "<</cupsString1 3 -1  
roll>>setpagedevice"
     *ParamCustomWatermarkText Text: 1 string 0 32

> Which application a able to use this ppd?

Custom options are supported in Mac OS X 10.6, the CUPS 1.4 web  
interface, and (IIRC) recent versions of GNOME and KDE.  There is NO  
custom option support in the CUPS Windows driver aside from custom  
page sizes.

>
> regards
> franz
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer