Re: reverse order printing?

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote about "reverse order printing?"
> I've been using an HP Deskjet 540 with spud, and it's worked fine so far.
> One annoying thing though -- the pages come out with the last page on top.
> Is there a simple way to reverse the order? would it be a gs or lpd/lpr
> option?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

I use the following in my printer filter file just before gs gets it:

cat - | /usr/bin/pstops -q 1:-0 | gs.............

pstops is in the psutils package.

Package: psutils
Status: hold ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 220
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Version: 1.17-2
Provides: postscript-preview
Depends: libc6
Suggests: gs, gv
Description: A collection of PostScript document handling utilities
 This collection of utilities is for manipulating PostScript documents.
 Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement
 into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing.


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Brian 
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