<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Either point the queue at a file or use something like Tea4CUPS to grab the print data before it goes out...<div><br><div><div>On May 19, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Brett Ussher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Brett Ussher wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I need to get hold of one of the postscript files that I've printed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(not anyone in particular, just need one for troubleshooting an<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">unrelated issue). I'm wondering if CUPS keeps a copy of the files it<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">has printed. I found /var/spool/cups, but that only seems to have<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the log of the job that was printed, not the job itself. Is there a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">place I can look or do I need to enable some setting to make CUPS<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">store the PS files for a bit?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You won't have the printer-ready PostScript there, but if you turn<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the "PreserveJobFiles" option in cupsd.conf on, e.g.:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> cupsctl PreserveJobFiles=Yes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">then the "d" files will still be around.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">______________________________________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com<br></blockquote><br>Is there a way to get the printer-ready PS files? The problem is we have a system that parses the postscript file as it heads to the printer and determines pricing based on information it derives from it. We're having a pricing issue and need to see the actual postscript that is being sent to the printer in order to troubleshoot it.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Brett Ussher<br>_______________________________________________<br>cups mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cups@easysw.com">cups@easysw.com</a><br>http://lists.easysw..com/mailman/listinfo/cups<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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