[cups.general] PPD Custom Options confusion

[Michael Sweet]

On Jan 20, 2010, at 4:23 AM, jens.stark wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've been spending some time now trying to put a custom option into one of our PPDs for Linux. By now I think I really do not understand custom options - or what I am doing :(
> 
> Here is a snippet:
> ---------
> *OpenGroup: Advanced/Advanced
> 
> *% Base JCL key code option
> *JCLOpenUI JCLPasscode/Account number: PickOne
> *OrderDependency: 10 JCLSetup *JCLPasscode
> *DefaultJCLPasscode: None
> *JCLPasscode None/No Code: "nothing here!"
> *JCLCloseUI: *JCLPasscode
> 
> *% Custom JCL key code option
> *CustomJCLPasscode True: "@PJL SET ACCOUNTNUMBER = <22>\1<22><0A>"
> *ParamCustomJCLPasscode Code/Key Code: 1 int 0 99999
> ---------
> 
> For one, I do not know which printing dialogues will nowadays support custom options correctly.
> 
> No matter what I enter, the data stream always contains "nothing here!"


What version of CUPS?  There was an issue prior to 1.3.9 where custom JCL options were not emitted correctly.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer