gtklp - print files via CUPS

gtklp [-P|-d printer] [-c configdir] [-S|-h server] [-p port] [-l] [-D] [-V] [-b] [-i] [-H] [-C] [-U user] [-#|-n n] [-E] [-q priority] [-t|-J jobname] [-o option=value ... ][file(s)]

lp [-d printer] [-S|-h server] [-p port] [-D] [-V] [-b] [-U user] [-#|-n n] [-E] [-q priority] [-t|-J jobname] [-P page-list [-H handling] [-X] [-o option=value ... ][file(s)]

lpr [-P|-d printer] [-S|-h server] [-p port] [-D] [-V] [-b] [-U user] [-#|-n n] [-E] [-q priority] [-t|-J|-C|-T jobname] [-X] [-o option=value ... ][file(s)]

GtkLP is an graphical frontend for CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System.

It is used to have an easy (and graphical) access to all of the many options of cups-managed printers.

The following options are recognized by gtklp:

-P printer

Use printer as default destination.

-d printer

This option is equivalent to "-P".

-c configdir

Use configdir to set an alternative path to the configfiles for GtkLP.

-S server

The name of the CUPS-Server.

-h server

The same as -S.

-p port

The port of CUPS-Server, 631 per default.

-l

Only list the chosen options as a list of commandline-parameters for lpr.

Nice for scripting purposes...

-D

Debug.

-V

Displays the version of GtkLP.

-b

Use builtin defaults instead of saved options

-i

Ignore data on stdin.

Sometimes useful, e.g. for printing from some versions of the Acrobat Reader.

-U user

The name of the cups-User to use.

-# n

Make n copies per default.

-n n

The same as -#.

-H

Help

-C

Force console-mode

-o option=value

Specify extra options, same syntax as lpr

-E

Forces encryption when connecting to the server.

-q priority

Specify the priority of the print job, from 1 (lowest) to 100 (highest)

-t jobname

Specify the jobname

-J jobname

The same as -t.

If called as lp, the following options differ from GtkLP`s options:

-X

Force X-Mode, even if GTKLP_FORCEX is not set to 1

-P page-list

Specifies which pages to print in the document. The list can contain a list of numbers and ranges (#-#) separated by commas (e.g. 1,3-5,16).

-H handling

Specifies when the job should be printed. A value of immediate will print the file immediately, a value of hold will hold the job indefinitely, and a time value (HH:MM) will hold the job until the specified time. (does this option work ?)

If called as lpr, the following options differ from GtkLP`s options:

-X

Force X-Mode, even if GTKLP_FORCEX is not set to 1

-C jobname

Specify the jobname

-T jobname

The same as -C.

-p

Specifies that the print file should be formatted with a shaded header with the date, time, job name, and page number. This option is equivalent to "-oprettyprint" and is only useful when printing text files.

-l

Specifies that the print file is already formatted for the destination and should be sent without filtering. This option is equivalent to "-oraw".

Some other options from systemv`s lp and berkeley`s lpr are ignored without error message

GtkLP looks for config-files under

<configdir>

then under

$HOME/.gtklp/

and at last under

/etc/gtklp/.

To hide Printers from users, use the following pathes:

/etc/gtklp/accept/

/etc/gtklp/deny/

$HOME/.gtklp/

Just put an empty file with the name of the printer the user should see by default to accept, put an empty file with the name of the printer the user should never see to deny.

The accept values can be overwritten by the user, the deny values can't.

In GtkLP you can define a browser to open the help URL, the CUPS-Homepage and so on. Just use the your favorite HTML browser. The first $1 in command-line will be substituted by the URL.

If you can't connect to an X-Server, GtkLP acts as console-lpr.

If called as lpr, or lp, GtkLP acts on console and has some other command-line parameters, see above.

You can set the following environment variables to influence the behaviour of GtkLP:

CUPS_SERVER

The default CUPS-server to connect to

IPP_PORT

The default Port of the CUPS-server to connect to

PRINTER

The default printer to use

GTKLP_FORCEX

Set to 1 to force X-Mode for lpr and lp

GtkLP produces the following Error-Codes:

0

normal program termination

1

small error, wrong parameters, etc.

2

Server Problems, server not found, no default printer found, etc.

3

BAD error. Fields declared too short, too many printers, etc.

gtklpq(1), lpr(1), CUPS Software Users Manual

http://localhost:631/documentation.html

This program was written by T. Mueller, 2000, 2001, 2002.

It is licensed under the Terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE,

see also http://www.gnu.org.

The latest version of GtkLP is always available under

http://gtklp.sourceforge.net/



Feel also free to contact me at

sirtobi@stud.uni-hannover.de

Please mail also, if you like the software !!! ;-)