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Title: cups job id
Post by: mbachmann on February 03, 2004, 04:49:47 PM

Running the e-smith-cups-0.0.8-2sme6.src.rpm on SME 6.0 very well.  

The pdf printer is writing jobs properly to an ibay. CUPS generates a job id for the file like:

user-Jan28-135048.pdf

How and where does CUPS generate its job ids and how do i modify it?

Background is: For certain circumstances the CUPS outfile must have a certain name like "pdfout".

Title: CUPS pdfdistiller ouput file name
Post by: Anonymous on February 04, 2004, 08:58:44 AM

To pick a nit, you don't want to change the cups job id, but rather the pdf backend's output format. The pdf backend is a shell script. It's at /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf. You can simply change the OUTPUTFILENAME variable.

Title: cups job id
Post by: mbachmann on February 04, 2004, 09:38:37 AM

I love nitpickers. More nitpicking means usually less errors.

While it's neat script i just can copy the printed job to it's desired destination and renaming it for my convenience.

cp -f -p "OUTPUTFILENAME" "PDFDIR/temp.pdf" did the trick.

I've skimmed through the docs for several hours but was not able to find it. The structure of the Unix file locations is an ever growing mysterium.