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Add 8-up support to ipptransform - #160

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Add 8-up support to ipptransform#160
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Summary

  • add an explicit 2-by-4 layout for number-up=8 in ipptransform
  • document 8 as a supported number-up value
  • add direct transform and virtual IPP Everywhere regression coverage

Motivation

This is the libcups companion to OpenPrinting/cups#1672. Eight-up printing is particularly useful with ISO A-series paper, where the page aspect ratio makes this imposition geometrically natural. The current libcupsfilters PDF transform already supports an explicit 8-up layout.

The new end-to-end test uses ippeveprinter, submits the existing eight-page PDF fixture with number-up=8, verifies that the job retains the attribute and completes successfully, and checks that ipptransform places all eight input pages on one output page. No physical printer is required.

Testing

  • ./configure --enable-debug
  • make
  • make -C tools test — existing suite: 202 tests, 79 passed, 0 failed, 123 skipped; new 8-up suite: 3 passed, 0 failed
  • negative control with the new case 8 temporarily removed: the regression test fails on the former 1-up fallback as expected

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Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

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Mr-Tao marked this pull request as draft August 19, 2026 11:49
@michaelrsweet michaelrsweet self-assigned this Aug 20, 2026
@michaelrsweet michaelrsweet added the enhancement New feature or request label Aug 20, 2026
@michaelrsweet michaelrsweet added this to the Future milestone Aug 20, 2026
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I'm really not sure how I feel about adding this at a time when things like N-up are barely used... Will consider it but certainly not before libcups 3.1.

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