Hi folks, This morning, I was faced with a simple task of printing a pdf document. To save paper and ink, i wanted to print two pages to a sheet and duplex them(manually since the printer does not support duplex). I have so far managed to configure CUPS and it prints fine but that is far as I have got. There was actually a little problem there as well - the printer is actually an Epson Stylus C62 but the CUPS system only shows an Epson Stylus C60. I tried downloading and installing the foomatic file for the C62 but when I try to print, it says that the printer is stopped. Clicking start printer doesn't help either. I am using the web interface BTW. I then tried to print using mpage but each time i send the job, the printer page says "No pages found" I tried to print from KGhostview (hoping that it would have good support for CUPS since its KDE) but the printer page says "Invalid Printer Settings" for the document coming from there. Galeon just crashed on trying to print. In the end, I did pdf2ps, then ran mpage -2 -bA4 >output.ps on the ps file, then ran ps2pdf to get a pdf file back and ran lp -o page-ranges=1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15 output.pdf However, since the pdf file originally was a scanned document - the pages seems to have been cut off at the top. What I would like to know if anyone can help me in this is 1. Is there an easier way of doing this (without the pdf2ps and ps2pdf). Preferable just one command to print a document 2 pages to a side and just the even pages of the result or the odd pages of the result. 2. How can I get mpage not to chop the top of the pages off Thanks for any help / pointers. Shri PS - can you cc: me please since I am currently unsubscribed. PPS - running testing system updated yesterday -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant 26/3 Annandale Street Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: shri@urbyte.com Edinburgh EH7 4AN Web: www.urbyte.com
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