Manuel Capinha wrote:
I've just been bitten by the same problem recently. What happens is that when you click on the "Enable advanced printer features" option on windows, what it does is enable EMF support. EMF works by letting the printer driver embbed some printer commands that will be executed by the print server. For this to work, the print server must be running on Windows, since cups+samba don't do EMF (and from what i've gathered this will _never_ work).
I'm currently investigating if there's some other way to achieve the n-pages-to-1 print option under the cups+samba combo... this will have to go through some sort of filter on the cups backend but all of this is still a sketch in my head..
In principal it is not a hard job to do. At the point in the CUPS job-flow where the job is in Postscript, it should (in theory) be a relatively easy process to munge the job to do N-up printing. It would mean that you couldn't run raw queues, but once implemented once would apply to any printer, from any client - provided that the jobs go through the "conversion to postscript - conversion to printer native" process.
However, it is easy as an 'armchair critic' to say that something is easy to do !
Simon
-- Simon Hobson MA MIEE, Technology Specialist Colony Gift Corporation Limited Lindal in Furness, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0LD Tel 01229 461100, Fax 01229 461101
Registered in England No. 1499611 Regd. Office : 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
