Some questions about cups-pdf (fillable forms and who printed)
by jcun4128 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KCZ0)
I have setup a cups-pdf printer on Ubuntu and I'm able to print from my Windows 10 client.
One thing I'd like to ask one more time (though I believe I have the answer already), is there any way to preserve the fillable fields when you print a fillable PDF from. Particularly say at the ghostscript call or something, some filter you turn off.
Other than that, my other concern is how to tell who printed what document. Looking around in the logs I don't see an IP associated with a file name. So I'm wondering how would I keep track of who printed what document/file? I can associate people uuids/modify the file names with server-side code (nodejs) but wondering from cups-pdf side about identifying information like IP.
The "worst" scenario/case I can think of is every person gets a unique printer name... I mean why not. In this particular use case a person would have a single session at a time and each time they'd start from a blank slate (no previously printed documents).
Then hopefully they'd have their own custom folder to output their printed pdfs.
I'd appreciate any other thoughts/insight that might be a smarter plan.
One thing I'd like to ask one more time (though I believe I have the answer already), is there any way to preserve the fillable fields when you print a fillable PDF from. Particularly say at the ghostscript call or something, some filter you turn off.
Other than that, my other concern is how to tell who printed what document. Looking around in the logs I don't see an IP associated with a file name. So I'm wondering how would I keep track of who printed what document/file? I can associate people uuids/modify the file names with server-side code (nodejs) but wondering from cups-pdf side about identifying information like IP.
The "worst" scenario/case I can think of is every person gets a unique printer name... I mean why not. In this particular use case a person would have a single session at a time and each time they'd start from a blank slate (no previously printed documents).
Then hopefully they'd have their own custom folder to output their printed pdfs.
I'd appreciate any other thoughts/insight that might be a smarter plan.