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On 2013-01-24, Joseph wrote: |
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> On 01/24/13 11:25, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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>>On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:43:06AM -0700, Joseph wrote: |
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>>> I have a document "letter" size in landscape mode and I'm trying to |
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>>> print it with e-document viewer |
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>>> 4-pages per side and it will not print. Some documents prints OK |
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>>> but this one will not print it. |
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>>> |
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>>> Are there better programs in Linux for printing pdf files? |
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>>> |
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>>> pdfinfo Biol_321_2013_Lec_06_Biogeography_1_per.pdf |
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>>> Title: Microsoft PowerPoint - Biol 321 2013 Lec 06 |
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>>> Biogeography.pptx |
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>>> Author: hproctor |
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>>> Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 |
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>>> Producer: Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows) |
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>>> CreationDate: Wed Jan 23 17:43:54 2013 |
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>>> ModDate: Wed Jan 23 17:43:54 2013 |
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>>> Tagged: no |
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>>> Pages: 18 |
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>>> Encrypted: no |
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>>> Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) |
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>>> File size: 961318 bytes |
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>>> Optimized: yes |
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>>> PDF version: 1.4 |
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>> |
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>>lp still does a good job for me: |
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>>mingdao@workstation ~ $ lpstat -a |
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>>Officejet_Pro_8500_A910 accepting requests since Wed 23 Jan 2013 |
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>> 02:52:15 PM CST |
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>>mingdao@workstation ~ $ lp -d Officejet_Pro_8500_A910 -o scaling=75 |
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>> HOW-TO/apcupsd.pdf |
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>>request id is Officejet_Pro_8500_A910-19 (1 file(s)) |
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>>Bruce |
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> The document prints OK from windows but Linux drivers are not up to |
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> standard :-/ |
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> I'm trying lpr but the following command does not print the pages I |
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> want, it prints all pages instead of 1-8 |
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> lpr -o media=Letter -o landscape -o number-up=4 -o page-ranges=1-8 -o |
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> number-up-layout=btlr |
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> I think "-o number-up=4" can not be combine with: "-o page-ranges=1-8" |
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Try using something like pdfnup (app-text/pdfjam) to generate an n-up |
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version of the pdf before sending it to the printer. |
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If everything else fails, try rewriting the pdf, either using pdftops |
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then ps2pdf, or by using ghostscript directly. |
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And I don't think you can compare the two things directly: in Windows, |
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IIRC, the applications print using GDI. lpr sends the PDF as is directly |
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to the CUPS server. If the PDF lacks builtin fonts, for example, those |
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won't appear even if your PDF viewer can view them (think, fonts under |
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your home directory, a printing server in a different machine...). |
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Some PDF or PostScript features can hit ghostscript bugs or other |
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issues. |
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But, if you want my two cents, look at psnup and pdfnup. At least then |
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you can be sure that the 4-per-page part is done. lpr options are |
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quite simplistic; do also have a look at pdftk if you need, for example |
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to rotate PDF pages, or to concatenate PDFs without rewriting their |
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contents (keep the code as-is, unlike what would happen if you just fed |
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ghostscript several pdfs, where it would rewrite the PDF code). |
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If your issue is with a single PDF, the problem is likely some issue |
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between a PDF feature used by that PDF and the incarnation of |
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ghostscript you are using. Try pdftops and ps2pdf and see if the result |
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is printable. |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |
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