On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:32:22AM +0100, Jerome Alet wrote: > > I don't understand why, sorry.
In fact I now understand, but I don't see a big difference in reality. Say with your solution, the user can still print one 1000 pages document even if his quota allows him to print only 20. With mine I agree he can print 15 * 1000 pages documents in this situation, but in reality will this ever happen ? He would be in serious debt anyway since accounting is still done. > > That is of no interest to the orderer of this system. Quota is simply > > impressions, same for all printers. The cost of the job can not be > > determined before the job has completed on the printer. This is not correct (I understand you may not need it though) : even with only ghostview you can know in advance how many pages there are in your document, and so its cost. You can always do a more or less accurate estimation using ghostscript, that's what I meant. This doesn't modify the accounting datas in any way, this just informs the user in advance, and only on his request. Say you have different printers, for each one you define some cost per page and/or per job. For example you've got two laser printers, one for which the toner cartrige costs much more than for the other one, but you use the same paper in both. The user can then easily learn on which printer the job is cheaper for him and choose the printer accordingly. bye, Jerome Alet -- "A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more." - RMS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
