a2ps -2 prints on the same side on a HP printer

[Dmitri Chubarov]

Hello,

The problem is as follows. I have a Postscript file called 
file1.ps with 8 pages and 6 EPSF figures produced with DVIPS.

  a2ps -2 -o file2.ps file1.ps 
prints the following at the stderr
  [v8.ps (ps, delegated to PsNup): 19 pages on 10 sheets]
  [Total: 20 pages on 10 sheets] saved into the file `file2.ps'

This looks suspicious as there are only 8 pages in the document.

When I view file2.ps with Ghostscript, it is OK, but when I print 
it on a HP printer, two pages with pictures are printed on the 
same side (pages overlap: one is printed on top of the other).
It is somehow related to the EPSF figures in the document.

The way round that sometimes solves the problem is

  a2ps -2 file1.ps -o- | ps2pdf - - | acroread -toPostScript | \
  a2ps -1 --sides=tumble

to get it printed on a duplex printer. Essentially, ps2pdf and
acroread are used to strip the comments reliably and the last 
a2ps is to add Tumble:true comments via psset.

Best,
/DC

I really like a2ps and use it in many different ways.