Printing summit

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 03:12:16 CET 2006


George Liu wrote:
>> I could look into the Foomatic PPD generator to generate
> CUPS-compliant
>> custom option keywords for numerical, string, and password options.
> [George Liu] 
> The CUPS custom option in PPD is used to display and to get user input. 
> The Foomatic option in PPD is used to tell backend script --
> Foomatic-rip to execute action according to user input. 
> 
> So, I would rather make PPD files supporting both CUPS and Foomatic PPD
> extension (if that is what you meant), because CUPS 1.1 users can still
> use command line/xpp to control custom user options. 
> 

Yes, I will not take away the Foomatic keywords. I will only add the 
CUPS keywords and so support both extensions.

    Till



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