Re: duplex printing

[Roger Keays <s354157@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply. I found an even better way of doing it with pstops:

  #!/bin/sh
  pstops 2:-1U\(1w,1h\),0\(1cm,0cm\) <&0 | lpr -C duplex

.. the possibilities are endless!

Regards,

Roger

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, John Culleton wrote:

> On Thursday 23 August 2001 10:33 am, Roger Keays wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Apsfilter is really good. I only have one problem. My printer prints
> > sheets out face down, so to do a duplex print you have to reorder all the
> > pages (i.e. reverse the order) before you put them back in.
> >
> > Is there any simple way around this?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Roger
>
> It depends. I use TeX and Lyx for my documents. At the dvips step I can
> specify -r  for reverse order of the pages.
>
> There is also a ps2ps program in the Ghostscript distribution. The
> documentation is tiny.  Maybe with the right switch it would reverse the
> pages.
>
> I use psselect to select even or odd pages, and incidentally to reverse them.
> Here is one script I use for duplex printing of pamphlets:
>
> psbook $1.ps $1b.ps                #puts pages in pamphlet sequence.
> echo 'psnup'
> psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter $1b.ps $1p.ps   #sets up the pamphlet for printing
> echo 'psselect'
> psselect -o -r  $1p.ps $1o.ps #SELECTS ODD PAGES IN REVERSE
> psselect -e -r  $1p.ps $1e.ps #SELECTS EVEN PAGES IN REVERSE
> lpr $1o.ps                             #prints odd pages
> echo 'switch paper'               #warning: wait till odd pages really finish
> read x
> lpr $1e.ps                            #prints even pages
> rm $1p.ps $1e.ps $1o.ps $1b.ps
>