Re: Re: stupid question about gs

[Paolo Pedaletti <paolo.pedaletti@flashnet.it>]

Ciao Chris Gray,

 > > have a stupid question about gs: how to specify the pages i 
 > > want to print? "gs -?" told me: embed %d or %ld for page#
 > > but get me an exmple, i had try to print page 5 of foo.pdf use
 > > 
 > > # gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOutputFile=\|lpr foo.pdf %5
 > > 
 > > it seem to not work.
 > 
 > If you have magicfilter or apsfilter set up, you can use a2ps to do this
 > for you
 > 
 > $ a2ps -1 --pages=5 foo.pdf
 > 
 > works as long as you have acroread, to which it delegates the file.  If
 > you don't have acroread, I guess you could turn foo.pdf into a ps file
 > using pdf2ps and then use the same command as above on foo.ps
 > 
 > a2ps has the added advantage of being able to use it for almost any type
 > of file (jpg, dvi, ...)

by the way.... and how to print in reverse order a n >> 1 of pages?
I haven't find anything, looking around...

TNX
Ciao

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Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa
paolo.pedaletti@flashnet.it