[cups] Discoverability of page-border

[Michael Sweet]

Anatoly,

See:

    http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html

which is also hosted on localhost:631 on any system running CUPS and referenced by the "lp" and "lpr" man pages.


> On Dec 10, 2014, at 3:54 AM, Anatoly Vorobey <avorobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I recently spent some time trying to find out how to do N-Up printing with
> a border around each logical page on Linux (Ubuntu).
> Belatedly, after solving the problem with third-party packages, I found out
> that the functionality was available with the -o page-border
> option to lp(1).
> 
> I did read the man page for lp(1) while looking for a solution, and it
> lists -o number-up, but not page-border or other n-up options I found
> in the CUPS manual. And the common GTK+ printing dialog used by major
> applications doesn't have a page-border option either. Are
> these choices deliberate - I mean, did people consider and intentionally
> decide not to list these options on the manpage, or provide them
> in the GTK UI, or is it this way just because nobody got around to it?
> 
> I know the solution now, but I guess I'm worried about its discoverability.
> I didn't think of reading the CUPS manual because I assumed that
> common options would be listed in the manpage. Other Linux users might not
> be aware that CUPS exists at all - for them printing just works,
> except when they need to draw a border.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anatoly Vorobey.
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair