I'd like to ask for help with a problem in CentOS 5.2 when printing from the command line with the prettyprint option selected. Program students print out their code with the command:
lpr -P<printer_name> -o prettyprint -o job-sheets=none <filename_to_be_printed>
The prettyprint option, as you know, puts a banner with file name and date at the top, and uses a small font, and (for a color printer) uses different colors for different parts of the file. This last worked with a fully updated CentOS 4.7 server but after a move to a different fully updated CentOS 5.2 server the prettyprint option does nothing unless the first line of the file to be printed contains /*hello*/, (discovered quite by accident). CUPS on CentOS 4.7 was cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.1 while the version on CentOS 5.2 is cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.3. I tried printing from a couple other Linux distros, Fedora 10 (cups-1.3.9-6.fc10.i386) and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, both of which were fully updated. The Fedora 10 exhibited the same problem while the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS printed properly with the prettyprint option. Is this a bug with the way RedHat implements CUPS or am I missing something? The only thing I found in a quick Google search that was similar (but with opposite effects, if I understand correctly) was this CUPS bug report http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2158 which gives no resolution. For now the instruction is having the students print via a script he created which adds *hello*\ to the first line of their code. Any help would be appreciated.
Ted