openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

hi folks,

The printer	 use is hooked up to a little printserver/router which
runs an lp queue.  I can't access it directly, so instead I go through
a shared windows printer queue on anotherm achine.  

Prining works fine, but lately, I've been printing out Openoffice
Impress slideshows to take notes on.  This works best if I print the
slideshows in 4-up mode.  However, there's no "n-up" configuration in
either the Openoffice print dialog, orthe CUPS web-based printer configuration
screens.


Does anyone knowa work3aroun1d for this situation?  I imagine, given
that OOo (this is 1.9.108, btw, using the packages from
people.debian.org) seems to lack a native n-up processing utility,
that the best thing to do would be to somehow rig up a new printer
definition in CUPS which somehow piped the data into a 4-up filter
before sending it to the printer; but I don't know how to do this.

any hints?

thanks,
matt

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