[TriLUG] CUPS : displaying number of pages?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 16:59, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> Looks like the cups_job_t struct only contains size in kilobytes.
> http://www.cups.org/spm.html#cups_job_t
> 
> I'm guessing that the number of pages only gets evaluated when the file
> is first submitted with range or other options.  Looks like you'd have
> to do some coding within CUPS to make it display # of pages.
> 

Yeah, it seems that it only determines the number of pages after the job
is printing, when it sends it through a filter involving the "pstops"
utility.  There is a convoluted function that does this and as a side
effect logs the number of pages to /var/log/cups/page_log.  Now if only
I could figure out how to get the relevant information into the job
control panel... and I hate C.  Ugh.

--Jeremy

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