Re: Printing from last page to the first
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:
> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>
>> Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:
>>
>>> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs
>>>> to reassemble the printed document if it was printed from the last
>>>> page to the first one, leading to such a printing stack in front of
>>>> you:
>>>>
>>>> Sheet 1
>>>> Sheet 2
>>>> .
>>>> .
>>>> .
>>>> Sheet n-1
>>>> Sheet n
>>>> assuming there are n sheets of papers.
>>>>
>>>> However, even with using a special PPD file for my OfficeJet Pro
>>>> L7500, I am unable to tick such an option whatever the place: CUPS on
>>>> localhost, Printing menu under System > Administration, ...
>>>>
>>>> Is there an easy solution to use this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> If it is in postscript form, then you can use (or pipe through) the
>>> psselect program in the psutils package. I haven't tried it, but I
>>> see where cups configuration has a filter option, one of which is
>>> ordering using psselect.
>> Thanks for your answer. It is unfortunately *not* always in postscript
>> form. Your idea of piping through the psselect program which is in the
>> psutils package is nice for postscript files, but how do I make this
>> for other files?
>
> Most programs can print to a file in postscript format, or there are
> programs that can convert to postscript. The only programs I can
> remember right now are a2ps and enscript. I also see the gpr program
> (from the gpr package) depends on psutils, so it may also be able to
> select reverse printing.
>
>>> I see it in cups configuration and in the
>>> options for individual print jobs, so you just need to look deeper
>>> into the configuration options. It is available in the KDE versions
>>> of the print manager, but I don't know that is available elsewhere.
>> I use GNOME, but "Printing" is only a GUI for the CUPS server which
>> can be installed on a machine, isn't it? Consequently, if you can find
>> it in your CUPS server, I should be able to find it too. However, it
>> is still unreachable. I have looked thoroughly at all the options, but
>> aren't they PPD-dependent?
>
> It appears that it is a feature of kprint from KDE. It shows up in
> printer configuration under KDE, and print setup from KDE programs,
> but not in non-KDE programs.
>
> I just looked at the online documentation for cups, and I just found
> an option for reversing. If you have cups set up for online
> configuration, then try looking at:
> http://localhost:631/help/options.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started&QUERY=#OUTPUTORDER
> This show how to specify reverse printing from the command line, and
> shows a couple of examples further down the page.
>
Thanks. I discovered this option. Thanks!
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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