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

Huw Davies huw at codeweavers.com
Wed Nov 12 12:33:34 CST 2008


Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
> Steven Edwards ha scritto:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> So, replace ALL existing execs to lpr with direct cups calls ? Mixing 
> them for a single print job is not possible, AFAIK.

The correct way is to fix winspool and friends to use schedule_cups() 
which in turn uses cupsPrintFile().   Detlef could probably comment on 
how far away we are from using this.

Huw.






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