Is there a way to change the CUPS PDF printer output file name? I use Ubuntu and most recent CUPS.

I tried a script, cups-pdf.conf file, lp options but I was not able to find a way.

If you have a solution for this please let me know

I have not played with cups-pdf in awhile but you should be able to add a post-processing script in the cups-pdf.conf file.

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I have already written a script. So should I just paste it with the starting Key, "PostProcessing"? How can I use my script for this?

#PDFVer 1.4

### Key: PostProcessing (config, lptoptions)
## postprocessing script that will be called after the creation of the PDF
## as arguments the filename of the PDF, the username as determined by
## CUPS-PDF and the one as given to CUPS-PDF will be passed
## the script will be called with user privileges
## set this to an empty value to use no postprocessing
### Default: <empty>

PostProcessing



My Script:

#!/bin/bash
# /etc/cups/generate_pdf_filename.sh

# Get current user login
USER=$(whoami)

# Get hostname
HOSTNAME=$(hostname)

# Generate timestamp
TIMESTAMP=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')

# Construct filename
FILENAME="${HOME}/PDF/stdntrns_${USER}_${HOSTNAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.pdf"

It seems like you copied the script from another forum/thread that did not appear to work.

In another thread it appeared like it was not possible to create another file name via the cups configuration file since Ubuntu developers changed the cups-pdf code. I have not looked at the source code. I don't see any option with cups-pdf from debian repository either.

Change cups-pdf.conf to make the script executable. I don't necessarily like /etc/ for executable scripts.
untested.

I am the one who asks this question for different forums. The script was written by me. So I will try on PostProssesing. Can you provide more information about this?
The question is when I change the cups-pdf.conf file as you stated and with my script. Is there anything else should I do? Like -lp options or something like that? Or you said that one right script and cups-pdf.conf are enough for this. Right?

My script and posted changes to the conf file should be enough.

I will let you know. Thank you so much, Michael.

Unfortunately, it did not work. Are you sure about the script you send me?


#!/bin/bash

USER=$2 # 2nd command line argument passed is user name
OLD_FILE=$1 # 1st command line argument file name as generated by cups-pdf
HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
TIMESTAMP=$(/usr/bin/date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')
mv "$OLD_FILE" "/home/$USER/PDF/stdntrns_${USER}_${HOSTNAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.pdf"

I tested it using debian versus Ubuntu but I am fairly certain it will work. Did you remove the leading '#' in front of postprocessing? Did you use the full path to your script and is it executable?