[cups.general] problem with postscript %%title

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Sep 27 13:28:26 PDT 2010


There isn't a way to do this today, but feel free to submit a feature request for this:

    http://www.cups.org/str.php

On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Daniel Stoeck wrote:

> I know this is not a pure CUPS problem. But I thought I might find my answer here. I want to use following command:
> 
>    lp -d THEPRINTERNAME -t THETITLEIWANT /tmp/theepsfilename.ps
> 
> The printer is one of many virtual PDF printers and I want to use the -t title argument to set the title respective the name of the PDF that will be genereated. But the PostScript file contains
> 
>    %%Title: anothername
> 
> which overwrites the -t argument or is preferred in some way. Does anyone here know a solution for this?
> 
> (the background of this is that I have manymanymany print jobs with the same %%Title variable within the PostScript file and I have to make the name of each upcoming PDF unique)
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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