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Re: How to supply help document in CUPS?

Pangpang,

Thanks for raising this issue. For 10.2.x and 10.3, the only way to
make printer specific help available to the user is via a PDE. We're
open to suggestions for other solutions and maybe we can do something
better in a future release.

-Paul


On Oct 8, 2003, at 7:05 PM, ~{2LERER~} wrote:

> Hi paul and all:
>
> I have developed a non-ps raster printer driver using CUPS, and now I
> want to add help document to my driver.
>
> As I knew, Mac OS X supply a help system by which the printer venders
> can override the default
> behavior of the help button in a printing dialog. that is to say the
> developer can installs a help event handler
> to their own PDE to display the help document to the users.
>
> But I haven't developed any PDE in my driver, and my driver only
> include a PPD file and a filter, there also isn't
> any carbon or cocoa application in my driver, it is just a simplest
> CUPS printer driver,
> then how to associate the help document to my driver?
>
> Should I must develop a PDE to display the help of my printer to the
> users? Or any other method?
>
> Thanks for any suggestion and useful information!!!
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Best regards!
>
> -Pangpang Cai
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