On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Massimo Del Fedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
