[cups.general] problem with postscript %%title

ulrich.lauther at t-online.de ulrich.lauther at t-online.de
Mon Sep 27 14:39:07 PDT 2010


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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
> > 
you should be able to do it this way:

change_title -t THETITLEIWANT /tmp/theepsfilename.ps | lp -d THEPRINTERNAME

where change_title would be a tiny script using e.g. perl, awk, or sed that
changes the %%Title: -line.

> > Regards,

	-ulrich





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