Re: cups, mpage, lp etc.

[Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>]

shri@urbyte.com said:
> 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.

With my cups printers, I use "kprinter" in any X application print
dialog where normally you'd put "lpr". When the kprinter dialog comes
up, click "options" and there'll be an option for 2-up or 4-up printing.

As far as mpage goes, I use it in conjunction with the cupsys-bsd
package's lpr because it's cups-enabled (and mpage itself isn't):

	mpage -2 foo.ps | lpr

I don't know what to tell you about the printer setup problems, though.

Jason