[Printing-architecture] Number of copies in pure PDF workflow

[Alex Korobkin]

Till,

I'm not sure if you noticed my question there, sorry for bugging you, but I
have no one else to ask.

Do you know what should be added to a JCL-based PPD in order make pdftopdf
to generate hardware copies on a PDF printer?


2014-10-06 10:06 GMT-04:00 Alex Korobkin <korobkin+op at gmail.com>:

> Hi Till,
>
> You're right, JCLToPDFInterpreter is already set in the example PPDs
> shipped with cups-filters [1].
> But what needs to be added to those PPDs to have printers make copies in
> hardware instead of cupsManualCopies?
> There seem to be some code for it in pdftopdf [2], but it is unclear what
> exactly needs to be in the PPD for it to work.
>
> [1]
> http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/ppd/HP-Color_LaserJet_CM3530_MFP-PDF.ppd
> [2]
> http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/annotate/head:/filter/pdftopdf/pdftopdf_jcl.cc#L35
>
>
> 2014-10-06 8:54 GMT-04:00 Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>:
>
> On 10/04/2014 09:48 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> > Alex,
>> >
>> > You'll have to confirm with Till, but AFAIK the pdftopdf filter doesn't
>> support PJL options.
>> >
>>
>> pdftopdf adds PJL if the printer is a PDF printer. The printer is
>> considered a PDF printer if there is a "*JCLToPDFInterpreter:" line in
>> the PPD file.
>>
>>    Till
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> -Alex
>



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-Alex
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