Printing Accounting

Matthew Keller kellermg at potsdam.edu
Tue Jan 11 17:20:47 GMT 2000


Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Michael Glauche wrote:
> 
> > Yes .. IIRC that is possible when using postscript printers.
> > You should give the LPRng project some closer look, (www.lprng.org)
> > It comes with some filters that DO printing accounting for postscrpipt
> > printers. (They just count the "begin page" words in postscript
> > documents :)
> > But ... this is more a LPR issue than a samba issue ... :)
> 
> yep. but you can hack postscript files to return a null number of pages
> whatever the real number is.

	A crafty user can hack your print spooler. :) The LPRng solution is
ideal for most environs. 
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          - Matthew Keller -
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  Distributed Computing and Telemedia
State University of New York at Potsdam

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