-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carl Johnson <ca...@peak.org> writes:
> Merciadri Luca <luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> writes: > >> Carl Johnson <ca...@peak.org> writes: >> >>> Merciadri Luca <luca.mercia...@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! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAkrXmq4ACgkQM0LLzLt8MhzQbgCcC35VbE5vWmGjWBJjiPuSmIrQ CHUAnRwV93bah/2V9zkTlMkttymbfLPJ =PAIN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
