On Friday 10 December 2004 12:02, Jeff Kinz wrote: >On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:41:10PM +0100, hicham wrote: >> Hello, >> this may appear out of subject, I would like to >> print a postscript document of 170 pages recto verso >> for the sake of economy in a simple Hp laserjet 1100 >> printer. > >Its not clear to me exactly what you want here. What is "recto > verso" in English? > >I'm guessing that you want to do double sided printing (print opn > both sides of a piece of paper) and the printer you have does not > have that capability. > >I have done this in the far distant past. I used a shell script and >postscript utilities to generate two print commands that each > generated print jobs with every other page, one with even pages, > one with odd pages. You than have to collect the output of the > first job (odd pages) flip the stack over and print the second > job(even pages). > >I have forgotten which postcript utilities allow you to do this, > but that is the general idea. The majority of the printing tools available for linux these days do allow that to be setup and done. I regularly do this with both acroread and xpdf, and I think even ggv can do it. Some even give you the choiuce of doing it in reverse order, needed I believe for printers that turn the paper over internally, as the front loaders do otherwise you have to re-sort the output stack. Top loaders do not. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
