On 2/28/05 11:02 PM, Dave Camp didst favor us with:
> You might try asking about this on the printing list.
A reasonable suggestion on the surface, but I subscribed to the printing
list and it appears that the only other person on it is some fellow who's
out of the office until 3/7, at least according to his auto-response. LOL
> It's possible you
> might be able to manipulate the queue's directly with the CUPS API's,
> but I've not looked at them from that aspect before.
I'm hoping for something that's simple. This doesn't sound simple. ;-)
Larry
> Dave
>
> On Feb 28, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>> On 2/28/05 8:49 PM, Bryan Pietrzak didst favor us with:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 28, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to send files to a desktop printer to have them printed,
>>>> using
>>>> something like LSOpenFromRefSpec().
>>>>
>>>> This works, but the files seem to be printed in alphabetic order,
>>>> and
>>>> I need
>>>> for them to be printed FIFO (which seems like it would make a lot
>>>> more
>>>> sense
>>>> anyway). Is there a way to control this, and if not, what kind of
>>>> alternatives should I investigate?
>>>
>>> I don't know that you'll have any control over this. In some cases
>>> the
>>> docs might be queued up in some particular order, but what if one
>>> takes
>>> longer to spool (50 page doc) -- yet the one after that is just one
>>> page and spools quite quickly...it may get to the printer first.
>>
>> This is for a very specific application, and FIFO is important. Surely
>> there's a way to control this (that's more of a "the way it should
>> be" than
>> an assumption ;-). Even as a user I want jobs printed in the order I
>> initiate them 99% of the time.
>>
>> Larry
>>
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