[cups.development] cupsPrintFile2 API returns -1 (v1.6.1)

Charles Woloszynski cwoloszynski at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 04:10:31 PST 2012


It came back 'successful-ok' in cupsLastErrorString()


On Nov 8, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Check the value of cupsLastError() and cupsLastErrorString().
> 
> On 2012-11-08, at 7:04 AM, Charles Woloszynski <cwoloszynski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am new to using the CUPS API and I hope someone can help me.
>> 
>> I have a program that is submitting a PDF to CUPS for printing. Since the printer may be remote, I am using cupsPrintFile2 with the http parameter.
>> 
>> When I do this, I *always* get back a -1.  The job prints (yeah!) but I think I have something wrong since I don't think that I should always get back a -1 as the jobID.  
>> 
>> My call is really simple:
>> 
>> jobId = cupsPrintFile2(http, destination, jobName, "title", 0, NULL);
>> 
>> Any thoughts?  Did I need to include some job option to get back the jobID?
>> 
>> The remote CUPS server is running on OSX, if that matters.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
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