[RESEND] Send page size to cups with lpr command on printing (bug 15942)

[Steven Edwards]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Massimo Del Fedele <max at veneto.com> wrote:
> The best way would be, of course, replace ALL LPR code with direct cups
> calls. It's feasible, but it requires some refactoring of all printing
> code. For example, what's now
>          exec("|lpr -P myPrinter")
> which I replaced with
>          exec("|lpr -P myPrinter -o myPaperSize")
> should become
>        CupsCreateJob(....)
>        CupsStartDocument(....)
>        CupsWriteRequestData(....)
>        CupsFinishDocument(....)
>
> That would require some amount of work and, over all, I'm not sure it
> could be accepted to go into wine code.

You should check if cups is present at compile time (which I guess we
already do) and then dlopen the cups libraries if present (again I
assume we already do this) and yes use the cups api if possible rather
than directly invoking lpr.

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Steven Edwards

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