On Sunday 09 December 2007, Tom Horsley wrote: >Just curious: If you modify your printer's .ppd file >(over in /etc/cups/ppd/), do you need to restart the >cups service for the changes to take effect? Yes. >Or does >it reread the file on every printout anyway? No. >(Or >something in between?) > >I just installed a new printer recently and went through >a zillion iterations of the alignmargins script (from >the open printing web site) to get the margins tweaked >and I was wondering if I did more work than I had >to (I was always restarting cups based on general >paranoia :-). Anytime you change a config option, restart cups. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Windows: It's not pretty. It's not ugly. But it's pretty ugly.