[GRLUG] Watermarking "Print" Queue

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 12:11 -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> Adam,
> Why not make a cups queue that watermarks anything sent to it?  The
> you can use the distro's I'm

The bugger is that the job is submitted to CUPS via LPD so all jobs show
up as application/octet-string and almost all meta-data regarding the
job is lost.  

But I may just have to figure out how to hack it.

> On 5/15/10, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Check perzl.org
> >
> > On 5/14/10, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 10:50 -0400, Roger Roelofs wrote:
> >>> Adam,
> >>>
> >>> On 5/14/10 10:29 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >>> > I've had this stupid task on my to-do list since Febuary of '08;  and
> >>> > while I take swings at it occasionally I never arrive at something
> >>> > that
> >>> > works.
> >>> > We have a COBOL application that spools out jobs in PCL [a crude PCL
> >>> > at
> >>> > that] on an AIX host.  I have a simple "queue" on that host which
> >>> > instead
> >>> > turns the print job into a PDF and mails it to the user (which is very
> >>> > popular).
> >>> > However, users want to do the same thing but have the PDF watermarked
> >>> > with
> >>> > "DRAFT".  I've tried various cocktails with enscript, pdftk, etc...
> >>> > but
> >>> > never found a working solution.
> >>> First I'd suggest converting to postscript as an intermediate format.
> >>> Postscript is easier to parse and manipulate than pdf.  You can convert
> >>> to pdf as the last step.
> >>> How would the users indicate they want the DRAFT watermark?
> >>
> >> It is a specific print queue [queues are defined in the COBOL
> >> application (AcuCOBOL) separately from the underlying system].
> >>
> >> I've just discovered that ImageMagick's composite command works
> >> extremely well for water marking:
> >>
> >> composite -dissolve 80% -compose bumpmap \
> >>   -gravity center ./Documents/Organizatis/MI/Draft.eps invoice.pdf 3.pdf
> >>
> >> creating a 3.pdf from invoice.pdf with the watermark from Draft.pdf.
> >>
> >> Now there is just the joy of finding an ImageMagick build that works on
> >> AIX 5.3.0.  Oh, joy.
> >>
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