On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:57 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I needed to print and Internet Draft 2 sided and two up. My colleague > suggested lpr, but that does not have enough options, but I figured out > how to use lp: > > lp -d HP-Officejet-8500 -o sides=two-sided-short-edge -o number-up=2 > RFC5201-bis.txt > > But then he came back and said enscript is better and to use > > enscript -2r -PHP-Officejet-8500 RFC5201-bis.txt > > enscript does not come installed with F14; so I would have to install > it. I did a search for an online man page... > > This does not seem to provide 2 sided. According to the man page it > looks like I need to add > > -DDuplex:true > > So in what way is enscript better than lp? What neato things do I gain > by using it? > > enscript is not primaily a printing program, but it can print a file. It is primarily a program to convert a testfile into Postscript, etc as the firwst line in the man page indicates. " enscript - convert text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI, and over‐strikes" -- ======================================================================= Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
